AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 8994, 29 January 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Melboubne, January 28. sa.r Munro, Premier, has wired to the Agent-General that the Governments of Victoria and Tasmania feel that ,the colonies should be allowed to negotiate commercial treaties direct with Eurepean Powers, and urges him to inquire whether there is any insuperable objection to that course.*'" ' '*~ j ~* ' The South Australian Government agrees with Victoria, that the colonies should have the right to make commercial treaties direct with European powers. Sydney, January 28. Captain Rossi has obtained an injunction restraining the Bishop of Goulburn, from interfering with the former's family tablet in the Goulburn Cathedral. During a thunder storm at Newcastle . the top spars of ' the English barque,' lsle of Erin, were demolished by lightning, but fortunately none of her crew were injured. Brisbane, January 28. Important disclosures have been made in connection with the beer and spirit trade in Queensland. An engraver has confessed to making plates of Forster and Bass's labels j also of dthers, including tho leading brands of whiskey. Methods of working up the beer, if, edifying are not over pleasant, as was shown in one case, a lump of meat, it appears, was thrown into a vat, and left there till the beer had obtained the proper flavour/ The police are instituting proceedings against those connected.