AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2113, 18 October 1890, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

' ... Oct. 15. j delivery 0 j t^o o o i on j a i Treagurer - financial statement was blocked jio-night by a discussion whether the (Speaker of the House of Assembly had a right to remain in the chair as he was la ao insolventcondition, having called a ■meeting of his creditors Mr Dibbs, leader of the Opposition, demanded that the Speaker shoo'd resign, hat the Premier the opinion expressed by the Attorney-General was that the Speaker was qualified to remain in the chair until bis schedule was filed. Oct. 16,

Arrived—• fekapo from Wellington.

Mr McMillan commenced to deliver hia Financial Statement late this evening. He defended the Government from the attack that they wished to appeal to the country during the present labour crisis, and contended that the working men were not in a position to calmly consider fiscal matters, He explained that h«d it not been for the industrial crisis the revenue of the colony for the last halt year would have fully realised the glowing expectations. The delivery of the Statement had not concluded when the telegraph office closed. Brisbane, Oct. 16. Bills imposing duties on dividends and spirits and the Customs Tariff Bill have been passed. Adelaide, Oct. 15. The barque Barunga, which has arrived from London, reports that in the vicinity of the equator she sighted the Argomeoe, bound from ’Frisco to a nort in the British Isles, with her bows atove in below the water-line. She was only kept afloat by her collision bulkheada. The captain of the Argomene reported that he bad been in collision with tire

j British vessel Dovenby. which wagon a j voyage from Antwerp to Valparaiso. jTheDovenby was struck by the Argonjenf, and 6anb_. in seven minutes, Seven of her crew were drowned, bat iho rest managtidVilo,!,,scramble on board the Argpmene, i wbicb ; is making for Per* nembuco, in company- with a French vessel.