AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 7550, 16 November 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Sydney, Nov, 15.

Tbe Sydney Morning Herald, in an article referring to attempts to alter national education in New Zealand, says, the probability is one of the issues of next election will be denominational versus national education. The result of tbe contest is watched with considerable interest in Australasia, and the Herald predicts national education will emerge from the conflict essentially unaltered but better adapted to its great misßion.

Melbourne, Nov. 15.

A Loan Bill is expected to brought down for between £3,000,000 and £5,000,000 for railway works. Tbe Stock Conference has ended. Brisbane, Nov 15. Parliament has been prorogued to the end of the year.

(Received Nov. 16, 1 20 a.m.)

Sydney, Nov. 15.

Mr Gillies* reply to Sir HeDry Priikes urges that the Fed?ral Council is competent to deal wi'h defence and again invites New South Wales to join and insists tbat Sir H. Paikes' Dominion, 80>ieme should not stop short. Mr Gillies' deliberate judgment is that the, gri a'est hope of a larger federation becoming a fact in the near future lies in working the means of ?raa l^r fedeiation which we have in our bauds.