MELBOURNE.
March 4. In the Legislative Assembly last night, the bill introduced by the Graham-Berry for the reform of the constitution was read a second time without division. Mr Murray Smith then moved that a conference of the two Houses should be held to agree, if possible, to a compromise on the measure. Mr Berry objected to the proposal at the present time, and denounced it as unconstitutional and unprecedented. Sir John O'Shannessy, Mr David Gaunson, and Mr Wrixon, supported the motion, but the debate was fiaally adjourned to the next sitting. A caucus of Opposition members was held yesterday, at which Mr Murray Smith and Mr J. G. Francis were elected joint leaders of the party in the Assembly.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3023, 4 March 1881, Page 3
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