AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 5, 6 July 1881, Page 2

A USTRALIAN.

THE VICTORIAN CRISIS. A DISSOLUTION REFUSED. OPENING OF THE NEW SOUTH WALES PAKLIAMENT. GOVERNMENT AND THE HIGH COMMISSIONER. RESIGNATION OF THE BERRY MINISTRY. ANOTHER CHINESE SMALL-POX CASE IN SYDNEY. OPENING OF THE QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT. FAILURE OF THE TRANS-CONTI-NENTAL RAILWAY SCHEME. |keuter's telegrams." l ) Melbourne, sth July. It is now definitely known that the Governor has refused tho advice of the Ministry, that Parliament should bo dissolved in the present crisis. Ihe Royal Prince 3 visited Sandhurst today, and were accorded a splendid publio reception. Sailed, this afternoon— Union Company's stoamship Arawata, for the Bluff. This Day. Mr. Berry tendered the resignations of himself and his colleagues to the Governor this morning. It is probable Sir Bryan O'Loghlen will bo Bummoned by his Excellency to form a new Ministry, but it is considered doubtful that he will succeed in doing so. Sydney, sth July. Parliament was opened to-day by his Excellency Lord Augustus Loftus In his address, the Governor announced that during the session tho following measures would be brought in : — A Bill for the Regulation of Chinese Immigration, Licensing and Municipal Bills, together with others for the amendment of various Acta now in force in the colony. This Day. In both Houses of Parliament last ovening, addresses in reply to tho Governor's openinsr speech wore carried without division. A Chinaman who carried the small-pox from a countryman, who waa attacked at Waterloo, has been found to be suffering from the disease at Druittown, and has been removed to the quarantine station. Brisbane, This Day. The Queensland Parliament has been opened by the Governor. His Excell"ncy, in his speech on tho occasion, announced that the Government had failed to come to an agreement with tho English company for the construction of tho Transcontinental Railway, but it was hoped Government will be able to introduce a bill for the purpose during the session. Measures would also be introduced to give effect to the recommendations of tho International Conference. The report of tho Steel Rails Commission would be laid on the table, and would be found to decisively and comprehensively absolve the Premier trom the charges made against him. Hobart, sth July. Tho Hobart Town Mercury publishes in to-day's issue a circular despatch by the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to her Majesty's representatives in Australasia, relating to the series of resolutions passed by the members of the Intercolonial Conference held at Sydney in January last. With regard to the resolutions concerning the functions of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Earl Kimberley states that, while fully appreciating the high ability and earnestness displayed by Sir Arthur Gordon in maintaining Imperial jurisdiction in the Pacific during his term of office, tho British Government is nevertheless sensible of the great importance of the points raised by the Conference, and will take them into serious consideration at an early date. His Lordship adds that the Admiralty has already been communicated with upon the subject.