AUSTRALIAN.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6375, 10 February 1892, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[pEll -BESS ASSOCIATION. — COPYRIGHT.] FALL IN BROKE-THILL SHARES. VICTORIAN POLITICAL SITUATION. ONE-MAN-ONE-VOTE QUESTION. THE SYDNEY ABSCONDERS. RETURN OF THECAPrAIN OF THE YACHT. (Received February 10, noon.) Sydney, This day. Shares in the Junction mine, Broken Hill, have fallen to 5s 6d Melbourne, This day.

The political situation is unchanged. Mr Munro's resignation of tbe Premiership does not take effect until the negotiations for the disposal of the colony's treasury bills are completed. Mr Shiels, tho Premier elect is being counselled to exclude the one-rmm-one-vote plauk from the platform of the reconstructed Ministry, as it is likely to cause turmoil in an inopportune time If Mr Phii-ls agrees to arop the princiv.le, one of tho members of the Ministry it! the Legislative Council will rotam his seat, but the others will resign with Mr Munro. It is believed the Government j will retain the single vote as one of the items of their policy ~ but will keep it in the I back ground as much as possible. Ciptain Gill, who commanded the yacht Beagle, hau returned from Hong Kong. He says that 0.1 l /.nd Davis, whom he always know -jh Blo.mi _nd Douglas, treated him with ev.n/ consideration. He ro- ' signed command of tlie vea-sel after the ! H.u.lulu uuuole.