AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8287, 16 September 1903, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

[By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.!

Received September 16, at 11.31 p.m. Brisbane, September 15.

The Governor sent for Mr Morgan to-day and asked him to form a Ministry. Mr Morgan consented, and was given till Thursday, when the Assembly meet. MiBrowne stated that he waited on the Governor to-day and intimated that he could not in the present state of the parties, form a Ministry with any prospect of carrying on business. He advised the Governor to send for Mr Morgan, and added that- the Labor Party and the Independent' Opposition supported his action. The House adjourned till Thursday. Immediately after the adjournment Mr Morgan resigned the Speakership preparatory to forming a Ministry.

Adelaide, September 15. In the Ramsay Smith inquiry, Sir Josiah Symon, in a slashing address for the defence, declared that the charge against Dr Smith, was the outcome of malice and spite. The real cliarge was that two persons wanted to get rid of him by hook or by crook. After jiaying a tribute to Dr Smith, his eminence and efficiency as a medical man, and the esteem in which he was held by the -Government, counsel said it was under the direction of the Attorney-General he removed the skulls and heads and took human specimens, and fired rifles into dead bodies in order to give evidence as a Government medical expert. In other similar ways he had qualified himself for the duties the Government had imposed upon him. What Dr Smith had done had been done with absolute openness in the interests of the Government, his employers, anel in the interests of science. He charged the Government with t-lie basest ingratitude against Dr Smith. Received September 15, at 11.54 p.m. .Sydney, September 15. Arrived—Suffolk, from Wellington. Received September 16, at 1.5 a.m. Sydney, September 15. Cruciform, and Wakeful meet again in the Craven Plate. Both did flying gallops tins morning, Cruciform covering seven furlongs in lmin 28sec, and Wakeful six furlongs in lmin Great interest is taken in the race. The Telegraph expects Cruciform will win again, and testify to the correctness of liis first day's running. Mr Stead has received a number of telegrams congratulating him on his win in the Spring Stakes, including one from Mr Seddon. The Runic to-morrow ships 10,000 carcases of frozen mutton, the first of a consignment of 38,C00 which Mr Arthur Kidman has arranged to despatch to England during the next month. After inspection by Mr 'Copeland, Minister of Agriculture, and others interested" in the export trade, including a number of New Zealanders, Mr Ividman said his experience of London showed that as regards quality and dressing New Zealand mutton was the best. He believed, given the same favorable conditions as obtained in New Zealand, they could do just as well as the New Zealanders, if they paid the same attention to such details as dressing and general finish. He intended to show they could do equally well.