AUSTRALIAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5356, 6 September 1895, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

' . ■ ♦ — — ■. .■•-•■ •■ ■ [Special to Press Association.] THE ABRAHAMS CASES. MELBOURNE, Sept. 5. < Louis and Emanuel Abrahams have each ■been sentenced to twenty months' im- ! prisonment and fined J8250. The Abrahams are in a state of collapse, and had to be' parried from the court on 1 stretcherß, They are extremely weafe and exoited. Louis is ia a critical condition, and apparently unconscious. The illness i 8 the result of a persistent refusal to take nourishment. < FLOODS IN VICTORIA. j There has been heavy rain in Gippsland, and several washouts on the Thorpdale railway-have occurred. The crops on the lowlandß have been damaged. ' I PRESBYTERIAN FEDERAL ' ASSEMBLY, i ,/,.•.■ . ; : .". -..;■, SYDNEY, Sept. 5,\ At the annual session of the Presbyterian Federai'Asaembly the Rev Fleming of Btißbane was qhosen Moderator. | ; ; ;the ; burning mine. ■'. ■„..-■. -. I The fire id Block XI. mine has bo far 1 subsided that it is intended to open one of the shafts nest week. ■ Efforts are also being made to reach the seat of the fire from the underground workings. i NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS. In the Assembly the . Premier said that nothing more would be heard of the Bill to increase Mr Eddy's salary. : Placing an increase of £1000 on the Estimates was a mistake, and it would be withdrawn. After .his had signed an agreement to give Mr Eddy £4000, subject to the approval of Parliament, Mr Eddy cabled from London that he did not wish the Bill to be submitted, and it would not be. . Mr Roße moved to Btrike out the exemptions in the land and income tax. The motion was negatived by 76 to 14. The diecnßsion on the exemptions is still proceeding. MODERATOR. SYDNEY, Sept. 6. The Rev Mr M'Swaine has been appointed moderator of the Federal Assembly. '.•■•' FEDERATION. ADELAIDE, Sept. 6. The Premier, in replying to the Premier of Victoria, stated that he proposes to push on the Federal. Bill if early action by New South Wales cannot be arranged. He promised that the House would be given an opportunity to discuss the New Zealand treaty next week. • A RETURNING GOVERNOR. BRISBANEi Sept. 6. VV The Governor has booked bis passage to London by the 'steatoGr Ruapehu, leaving Weliington bk'Npy; 28. ' L AN;INDIGNANT DENIAL. ' i During a debate in Committee of Supply : the Labour Party accused the Government iyof employing political spies to go through ; the country creating crimes. The charge was indignantly denied.