AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5621, 16 November 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[By Electric Telegraph —Copyright— Per Press Association — Red. Nov IG, 1.20 a.m.] SYDNEY, Nov. 15. Mr D. Gillies, Premier of Victoria, in replying to Sir Henry Pavkes, urges that the Federal Council is competent to deal with the question of Defence, and he again invites New South Wales to join in the discussion of this important matter. He insists that Sir Henry Parkes' Dominion scheme should not stop short at the levy of taxes. In conclusion Mr Gillies states that his deliberate judgment is that the greatest hope of a large federation becoming a fact in the near future lies in the working means of the smaller federation, which we have in our hands. MELBOURNE, Nov. 15. At the wool sales yesterday the number of bales sold was 3,605. (Received November 16, 12.45 p.m.) Nov. 16. The Local Board of Health have requested the Government to prosecute tho captain of tho Messageries Maritimes Company's Yarra, on board of which a case of small-pox was discovered, for suppression of the fact of the outbreak. Sir Henry Brougham Loch, who has been appointed High Commissioner of Cape Colony, sailed for Capetown yesterday. John Stephens, avlio was .arrested in October Last on a charge of murdering a Chinaman named Ya Yong smiio months previous, has been acquitted by the jury.