POLITICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1894, Page 2

POLITICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

• SIR GEORGE DIBBS RAISES A NOCONFIDENCE DEBATE. [USITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] Sydney, 28th August. Parliament was opened this afternoon. The Governor's Speech promises a Land Bill and a Local Government Bill. The latter provides for a system of Divisional Boards, similar to those of Queensland, in Bparsely populated districts, while the Municipalities Act will be brought into operation in the more thickly-populated parts. A more comprehensive measure will probably be introduced in the near future. The other ' measures mentioned in the Speech are Land and Income Tax Bills, and legislation dealing with light.^ailwaye to open up the interior, Federation, coal mines, the regulation of navigation, and an amendment of the law relating to factories and workshops. The Government intends to insist upon adequate reparation being mode for the seizure of the Costa Rica Paoket ; also to prepare a measure for the compulsory investigation of trade disputes, and the repeal of tho Customs Tariff of 1891. The Legislative Council has adopted the Address in-Reply. In the Legislative Assembly, Sir George Dibbs moved an amendment to tbe Address-in-Reply, condemning the Government for publioly announcing that it would demand a dissolution if Parliament did not accept the new policy. The Government accepted the amendment as one of want-of -confidence, and deoided to proceed with the debate at once. In his remarks on the amendment, Mr. Sleath drew attention to the shearers' trouble, and the whole question iB now nnder debate.