AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 148, 31 May 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEW S.

» BY BLBCTBIO TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (REUTKR's TRLKGBAMB. ) Melbottrnk, May 30. Sailed, last night— Wairarapa for Bluff. It is announced that Parliament will meet for the despatch, of business on Julv3. Mr Redmond has arrived here, and has declared that his mission to Australia has already baea more successful than he anticipated. i The Hon N". Fitzgerald has declined to succeed Bir B: O'boghlen as leader' of the Catholic party m Parliament. At a uieetingof the A ustra'ian Frozen Meat Company held to-Gay^ it was an tfoanced that no dividend would be paid for the past balfyar, and that, unless stockowuers offered better support to the cotnpany,it would be necessary to suspend operations. Mr James Francis is still seriously indisposed. „ 1 ... .Sydney, May 29. An extraordinary session of Parliament was opened to«day. In the Legislative Council the Address m Reply was voted. In the Assembly the Ministerial Bill for legalising the use. of , steam motors on tramways m the .city was introduced. The debate 1 on 'the Address m Reply has not yet .-taken ,tilape. The Government is about to issue a new loan m London. The amount is fixed at £2,000,000, bufc, m, the event of the money market being . considered favourable, this will be increased to .43 f OQ0 t OOO, -v J\ : 6 : ~ \ [ ". ;■. i