AUSTRALIAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5271, 30 May 1895, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

■ : [ Special. TaPEßss Association. j EECOMMENDATION FOE EELEABE.

SYDNEY, Mat 29.

It is understood that the Cabinet has recommended the Governor to release Francis Abigail, who is undergoing a sentence for complicity in bank frauds. new south Wales paeliament. SYDNEY, Mat 30. In the Assembly Sir G. R. Dibbasaid the Premier's cable' about the Governorship was too contemptible and idiotic to be noticed. He did not understand the relative positions of England f>nd the colonies. I The financial debate ia expected to finish to-day. . AN OFFEE ACCEPTED. MELBOUBNE, Mat 29. At a meeting of the creditors of Alfred Sbaw and Co., it was decided to accept a compromise of 12s 6d in the £„ payable in ten half-yearly instalments. VICTOBIAN PABLIAMENT* Parliament was opened to-day. The Governor's speech contained nothing of a surprising nature. His Excellency expressed the hope that in the course of events the mother country woold afford Victoria an opportunity to introduce a Bill to provide for the election of representatives to the Federal Council. Referring to the tariff question, he made the non-committal statement that a revision Bill would shortly be brought down, and announced that a Charities Bill, Trades Disputes Act Amendment Bill, and a Bill amending the insolvency law would be introduced during the session. ' THE 1 MELBOUENE TOBACCONISTS. MELBOUENE, Mat 80. A Tobacconists* Association has been formed. One of its rules makes any tobacconist allowing betting on his premises ineligible as a member. The President stated that tobacconists' licenses were used by many merely as a blind for betting-shops and sinks of immorality, and such shops not being dependent on the profits from the articles they professed to sell, so reduced the price of tobacco that it was impossible for honest traders to compete with them. Effortß, he said, would also be made to stop Sunday trading. . i

A TASMANIAN OBSERVATORY.

HOjBAET, Mat 80.

' The Chief Secretary has promised that the Government will support the erection of the observatory on Mount Wellington. As it is a matter of national importance, he will try and induce the other colonies to bear a part of the coat.