AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7063, 24 August 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Association- Ktoetric Telegraph -Copyright SIDNEY, August 23. The Premier, replying to a deputation, said the amount of business which had to be done was so important that he intended to ask the House to prolong the session into next year. MELBOURNE, A carter 23. Mathias Larkin has been sentenced to five years' on a further charge of embezzlement from the South Melbourne Building Society, to run concurrently with the sentence he is now working out. The Agricultural department has shipped twenty tons ef frozen bares and rabbitt to London. New Zealand and Tasmanian stud sheep are realising low prices. Five pounds and some jeweller ar« missing from Mrs Vennel's house. The theory is that the robber was disturbed, and m revenge murdered the children before decampinff. BRIBBANB, August 23. The Labor party systematically attacked the Estimates, beginning with the Governor's household. The leader of the Opposition, disapproving of what he considered captious criticism, left the Chamber. Numerous divisions were called for, the minority consist tngof 17 Labor votes. Mr Power, who had occupied the combined leadership of the Opposition and Labour party, resigned at the beginning of the session, the latter party having notified their intention to terminate the arrangement. Since then Mr Power has been nominally leader, but he now declines to occupy an invidious position. A slight rearrangement of portfolios has taken place. The Hon. R. Philip takes the the Department for Public Instruction, and Hon. W. H. Wilson will act as PostmasterGeneral until the Hon. A. J. Thynoe (one of the delegates to Canada) returns. Mr Wilson then returns to his seat m the Cabinet without portfolio.