VICTORIA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 10057, 26 July 1895, Page 3

VICTORIA.

Melbourne, Thursday. The Age, referring to the Marquis of Kipon's dispatch, Bays it is infinitely amnrfng to see him when virtually turned ant of office savagely taming oh the Imperial Federation League. The extension of tbe principle of Customs combinations amongst the British self-governing colonies is not the wild departure be deems it ; it has been law amongst the Australasian colonies for a quarter ot a century, bat has never once bees taken advantage of. The inducement of the neighboring colonies to enter Into reclpro- , oal treaties is naturally greater than widely divided provinces, co that tbe likelihood of any agreement between distant provinces is remote. The Age. says it wonld be intolerable that a Colonial Customs Bill should be at the mercy of the representatives of English exports, and it such repreeentatives claim power on the ground that the Imperial Government is responsible for the treaties of the Empire with tbe ontsidb world, it will be loonmbent i»r the colonies to insist on a revision of all Imperial treaties which limit their freedom in commercial action, and that no new treaties be made which make them parties to it without (heir consent. Heavy snowstorms have been experienced in all parts of the colony except in the Melbourne district. In some places snow has never been seen before, and in others it is the heaviest known for years. At Norwall It ranged 'rom one to two feet. AtJetroit) was egut iuches deep. The telegraph wires were weighed down. The trains in moat instances cat their way through, At Loch, however, the train wa* blocked by drlft3, and the tracks had to be taken off before it conld proceed. . The Premier of South Australia, replying to tbe Premier's letter with reference to tbe federal quarantine, says In the absence of any -form of federal nnlon it would be better to deal with the matter at a conference of representatives of the different colonies. Mr Turner favors the suggestion, and baß asked the Health Department to draft a scheme to submit to tbe proposed conference.