NEWS BY CABLE.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5441, 23 July 1879, Page 3

NEWS BY CABLE.

[beutib's telegrams. ] MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Weiberg, the Avoca goid^rqbber, was acquitted on the charge of theft, but was convicted of receiving the stolen money, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Pearce was sentenced to one year.

(Received at 3 o'clock this morning.)

— "•£- -^ j.UEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] , . 4 SYDNEY, Tuesday. , Parliament Will be" prorogued on Thursday ; The' steanier Tauibdroora, from Sydney to RocKhaniptbn, is stranded near Cape Capricorn, in a dangerous situation..' The crew are safe. MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Mr- Berry, in introducing the Reform Bill, recapitulated the history of the former b'illj wliich, he sajd, was resultless, owing to the Conncil's action. ,He dwelt on his labors in London, rind dri Sir Michael Hicks - Beach's despatch, which established, first, the analogy of the H^puse of Commons to the Victorian LegisIf ~ la Assembly; secondly, the pretensions c . che Council as the cause of all deadlocks ; thirdly, the means for finalitly in legislation ; and, fourthly) recognising the necessity of the wiil of the people. Mr Berry referred to the difficulties in New South Walesj South Australia, and New Zealand, whefe troujble wtts looming in the distance. The bill proposes thdt the Assembly be invested with full powers bf. eipe^diitire and. taxation, and that other bills passed iwice fey the' Assembly and twice rejected by the Council shall be' referred to a plebiscite by the Governor ; the Council to. become nominee, excepting that members shall be replaced as they retire by nominees, whose qualification shall be ten years' residence, abolishing property qualification.