AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6811, 25 October 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Association— Electrics Telegraph— Copyright SYDNEY, Oct. 25. In the Legislative Assembly a point of order was raised on the second reading of the Telegram Copyright Bill on the ground that as it interferes with trade, it should be introduceel in committee. Mr Sexton, on behalf of the Postmaster-General, stated that tho Government opposed the measure. The Speaker disallowed the point of order, and after some discussion the second reading wa3 negatived b} r forty to four. Sir Henry Parkes, speaking at a local option meeting, declared it to be the clear right of the people to say whether or not the number of public-houses should be reduced without any monetary compensation. He expressed himself fully in accord with the principle of local option. MELBOURNE, Oct. 24. The Premier, Mr Patterson, has concluded a correspondence with tho various colonies on the question of Australia being officially represented at the Antwerp Exhibition. Aa the outcome of enquiries made, the project has bren abandoned. 25. — The wool dispute has again been renewed, and the sales suspended. The buyers demand a return to last season'a terms. An important action is pending to test the power of banks to lock «p Crown moneys. The Master in Equity lodged £30,000 byorder of the Supreme Court, and the Government claim that this monej' cannot be locked up. Defendants contend that the money does not belong to the trust fuuds of the Treasury, and is therefore in the same posiI tion as the moneys of any other depositor. While Mr Wardet, an experimental chemist residing near Elsternwick, was experimenting with au explosive, a terriffic explosion occurred, and he was blown to pieces. BRISBANE, Oct. 24. Some changes in the constitution of tho Ministry are contemplated. Sir Tromas Mcllwraith has decided to risit Canada, partly in an official capacity and partly for the sake of his health, and ho does not desire under the circumstances to retain the Premiership. He will probably take the portfolio of Minister of Railways. Oct. 25. — The country in the vicinity of Flinders is in a deplorable condition from drought. Stock are dying in large numbers. The heat is intense, the thermometer registering 111 in the shade. There is no appearance of rain. HOBART, Oct. 24. Hutchison, proprietor of the Prince Alfred hotel, Duuedin, who was a saloon passenger by the s.s. Waihora from the Bluir, was found dead in his bed on Saturday with a leather rug-strap tightly fastened round his neck.