AUSTRALIAN

New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 25

AUSTRALIAN

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, June 7. It has been suggested that China is powerless to check the influx into Australia, as the Chinese already here came from Hong Kong, which is a British colony. The Chinese residents in this city are considering the advisableness of requesting Sir Henry Parkes to allow their being represented at the coming Chinese conference. They state thev are anxious to assist the Government in preventing any great influx of their countrymen. In the House this afternoon the Premier delivered a statement of the course the Government intended to pursue. The Land Bill was to be dropped for this session. The Land Property-tax Bill will be proceeded with, and the Chinese Restriction Bill would be dealt with to its completionlu this matter the Government intend to withdraw from the course previously determined on.- Amended Standing Orders were to be introduced. He stated that the deficit of New South Wales had not increased one shilling since the Government took office.' The deficit stands now at L 2,620,000, and the Treasurer would at once introduce a Bill providing for its extinction. He proposes to pay off a quarter of a million annually for ten years, payments to be made 6very six months. > Albany June 7. Arrived—Victoria, from Plymouth. Passengers for New Zealand —Mr and Mrs McDonald, Mr and Mrs Newton and daughter, Rev Mr Firth. Adelaide, June 7 At the nautical inquiry held to-day into the circumstances connected with

the collision between the Zabo and the Cowry, which occurred in this port on tho 19th ultimo, the Bench found the captains of both steamers to blame. Melbourne, June 7. The men who brought the charge against the captain of the Yerona have -left town. They applied to the shipmaster for their discharges, fearing they would share the same fate as the victim should they again go to sea in ■that vessel. Sydney, June S. 'The Government have shelved the Local Government Bill. The Premier last night announced ’to the House that the Government proposed to recommend the House to grant a vote for the construction of a railway line from Hunter Biver to Tweed Biver at a cost of £6,080,000. He stated further that the railway extension proposals of the Government a oost, including the Hunter to Tweed line, of £11,000,000. The Land Tax Bill has been read a second time. It is announced that the military force of the colony will he increased to 9-100 men. The Chinese Bill has passed the Council in committee. The clauses restricting the residence of the Chinese and imposing restrictions in travelling were struck out. The Freetrade Conference since the opening have been debating a resolution that it is desirable there Bhould be Freetrade amongst the Australasian colonies, based upon the Customs Union, with a uniform tariff. . A motion was carried that it is a distinct understanding that any policy of Freetrade or Protection is unimpaired with a further resolution passed affirming that it is desirable to attempt to establish immediate, or in the future, the principle of reciprocity by treaties in such articles as may be agreed upon by the Governments of the reciprocity colonies. The Conference agrees to support the Australian Federated Union, whose headquarters are situate in Melbourne.

■ [This message is published as received.] The Colonial Treasurer has introduced a motion imposing a propertytax of a halfpenny in the £. A large laboratory has just been completed on Bodd Island for the use of the Babbit Commissioners. Adelaide, June 8. Parliament has adjourned during the sittings of the Chinese Conference in Sydney. Newcastle, June 8. Sailed —Pukaki. She has eight Chinese passengers for New Zealand. Sydney, June 9. The sittings of the Freetrade Conference have concluded. Further resolutions were carried to the effect that it is desirable that the Australasian Colonies should federate on a comprehensive basis, embracing all measures that can only be dealt with by federal action ; that trade-marks granted in| one Colony shoqld have equal force in others. The next conference will be held at Melbourne during the Exhibition. Sailed Mararoa, for Bussell, with twelve Chinese aboard.

Sir Henry Parkes and Mr Burns, Premier and Colonial Treasurer respectively, represent New South Wales at the Chinese Conference to be held in this city. The Victorian delegates are Messrs Gillies and Deakin ; South Australia, Messrs Playford and Kingston ; Queensland, Mr Macrossau ; Western Australia, Mr Fraser; Tasmania, Mr Fysh. Obituary —Francis formerly a New Zealand Civil servant, He was a war veteran, and aged 89.

Adelaide, June 9

The Government have received a cable message from Lord Knutsford, stating the more important points to which the Imperial Government desire to direct discussion during the ensuing Conference on tho Chinese question; The Premier has sent a despatch to other Premiers, but the contents will not be published until they have been submitted to the Conference, which meats on Tuesday. Brisbane, J une 9. Ilanlan is a strong favorite for the race with Trickett on Wednesday.

Intelligence has been received that the schooner Linton has been wrecked at the mouth of the Hula Biver, near Port Moresby, New Guinea. The crew were all saved. . Melbourne, June 9. Arrived—Stanley, from Kaipara. The Melbourne Cup trophy has been increased in value to 150 eovs. The members of the Bar are raising an objection to Sir Henry Wrensford acting as a Judge during the absence of Judge f™B colony.

Brisbane, June 9. Sir Thomas Mellwraith intimates that when ho assumes the office of Premier he intends to place the running of the railways under a Board ot Commissioners. Sydney, June 11.

The Sydney Morning Herald, in an article dealing with the New Zealand loan, 3ays the position of the Colony will not be improved by reason of Mr Goscben’s conversion scheme. If the Colony bad maintained its position, the loan would have realised L 5 higher, and in order to revive her credit fsevv Zealand must keep her promise to abstain from further borrowing. Commercial advices from London to 4th May show that New Zealand mutton is bringing from 2s 6d to 2s 8d per Sib ; North Canterbury carcases, 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Preserved meats slightly improved. t New Zealand cheese is inquired for ; there is none in the market. The English hopgrowers are reported as feeling the effects of foreign competition very severely. . ~c The Chinese residents in the different colonies are uniting to memorialise the Conference on the hardships they are undergoing. There is great excitement at the reported death of Jones, the Australian cricketer. The cable message received was doubtfully worded, and his friends have received no advice. Melbourne, June 11,

Bishop Goe (Anglican) will pro. bably represent the combined religious denominations at the Centenary Exhibition. A mailman has been robbed by bushrangers between Bcaliba and Wedderburu, about 150 miles to the north-west of this city. Some of tho letters contained valuables. In attempting the arrest of a man in Bourke-street on Saturday night, there was a serious melee betweeu the police and a baud of rouglm who attacked the police. Constable Dalton was seriously injured and other members of the force badly kicked. Two arrests have been made. Arrived Barque Howard, from Kaipara. Two butchers named Oken and Dunstan were fencing with a knife and a cleaver this morning, when the latter was fatally stabbed in the breast. Olseu gave himself into custody. The six days go as-you-please match was won by Bayner, who covered 865 miles, breaking the record. The difficulty over the Marine Board Bill has been removed and the Imperial assent to the Bill has been given, subject to certain amendments, to which the Premier has agreed. Brisbane, June 11. Arrived—Janet Nicol, from New Zealand.

The German New Guinea Company have established a monthly lino of steamers to Australia. Adelaide, June 11. Obituary —Judge Gwvnne. Newcastle, June 11. Sailed—Barque Notero, for Lyttelton. Sailed—Davenport, for Auckland.

Sydney, June 12.

Some trouble is anticipated over the South Waratah colliery dispute, owing to the Company employing foreigners in tho place of men who. have gone out on strike. A general strike is now imminent. * A Bill introduced into the Assembly to give protection to trade against fraud in bills of sale/and providing that fourteen days’ notice must be given before registration, has been passed. In committee on tho Divorce Extension Bill a clause has boen inserted defining a domicile, and preventing relief being granted to persons who may seek to enter the colony for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. The steamer Essex, which put into Aden on fire, is on her homeward voyage from here with a large cargo of wool, tallow, copra and coke. The Tasmanian .Government has suggested that the question of the transportation of French convicts should bo discussed at the Chinese Conference. The proposition has been cabled to the other colonies, and Queensland has already replied in favor of restricting the deliberations of the Conference exclusively to the Chinese question. Obituary—Captain Buxton, an old. New Zealand trader. He leaves a wife and family in Lyttelton.

Melbourne, June 12. Sailed —Barque Grasmere, for Kaipara. The man Byan, charged at the Police Court to-day for attempting to shoot Constable Nicholson last week, was dismissed. The constable will

probably be brought before the Court on a charge of perjury. Another riot took place in Bourkestreet last night, when a band of larrikins attacked the police, using bottles as missiles. Several arrests were made. One prkoner, several of the police, and a little girl were seriously injured, aud had to bo treated at the Hospilal. Port Darwin, June 12. The police sent to Kopperanama have arrested six Natives for the murder of a black shepherd. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cable message from their London office, dated Bth instant : —Frozen Meat — Mut ton market steady ; New Zealand, \reigning from 601 b to 651 b por carcase, is worth 4|d per lb ; stocks moderate; for lamb the market is unchanged.