AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph -Copyright) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (By Electric Telegraph -Copyright ) PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Received October 7, at 11 45 a m. Sydney, October 7. A large eight hours demonstration has been held at Broken Hill. Seven thousand men marched in procession through the streets. Strike matters have not changed, and, so far, neither side has displayed any weakness, The new Electoral Bill which has been introduced into the Legislative Assembly provides for a reduction of members of the House from 137 to 125. Electorates are to be defined by commission on similar lines to those ,

adopted by Now Zealand. There is i > lie a periodical distribution every 10 yea >. or when the population in-n-ens"*, 33 percent, afc intervals of five ye. n&. Purvis iiliens criminals, and lunatics aie to be disqualified. All elections will tike place on one day. Nomination proceedings and the deposit with the nomination papers have been abolished. Melbourne, October 7. Prato, the negro charged with beins; accessory to the murder of Cornwall, a farmer at Warraknabeal, for which Mrs O'Brien was sentenced to death, has been acquitted. Adelaide, October 7. The Butter Bonus Bill, which provides for the payment of a bonus of 2d per lb on butter in quantities not less than oOOlbs, has passed through Committee in the Legislative Assembly.