VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 106, 1 November 1900, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATION. SIDNEY, 31sf October. The Legislative Assembly met at 10.30 this .morning, and will continue day .sittings on liovernm&nt days for the remainder of the session. The Truck Bill, prohibiting the payment oi workmen iv goods instead of money, and a Bill reducing the size of coal-lumpers' baskets have been passed. UNITED STATES CENSUS. LONDON, 3Jst % October. The census returns show thit the population of the Unitefl Suites' haY increased thirteen millions since* last census. [This would make the present population of the Stav<is ciode ou 76,000,0(10, as the census of 1890 showed a total of 62,622,250 persons, of whom 54,983,890 we-re white, amd 7,470,040 fr.ee coloured.]. EXPLOITATION OF NEW GUINEA, BRISBANE, 31st Oclober. In the Legislative Assembly the Premier (the Hon. J. Philp) in reply to a question^ stated that Burns, Pnilp, and Go. had applied for a hundred thousand acres in New Guinea for agricultural and ' other purposes. The matter is still under discussion. (Received November 1, 9.1. a.m.) THE BUBONIC PLA-JE. LONDON, 31sfc October. i A case of plague has been discovered on board a steamer which has arrived here from the Philippines. SPECIE FOR NATAL. MELBOURNE, This Day. A hundred thousand sovereigns have been shipped {or Natal.