The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-06-14

closed has been, however, there has been scarcely
any important legislation, most OF the time having
been occupied In brilliant illustration OF what Is
known In the Australias as the obstructiven system
OF parliamentary strategy. Parties are very evenly
the session as much as possible In the hope OF
something turning up which may give them the hon.
ors and emoluments and patronage OF office before
the propagation. The means adopted are very sim
pie, and chiefly consist In taking always to have
ON hand couple OF f0ur-h0ur takers. For here,
alas there Ii an unhappy absence OF the salutary
hour rule, and speaker, II he likes, can keep on
spouting until physical exhaustion compels him to
nothing OF interest," and was composed entirely OF
the usual commonplace compliments to the assem-
bly, and long allusion to the escape OF the Prince
from assassination. Parliament will meet again
about the beginning OF August.
There Is general complaint about the great de-
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arises from the decline in the yield OF gold and the
low price realized during the past year for wool The
'squatters," as the wool growers here are called,
are very generally In state OF impecuni.
oslty and distress. AS somebody has said
banE e and as the 81 en .e
nous tracts OF pasture land leased out to them by
the government at merely nominal rate OF rent
are termed, being mOrtgaged nearly up to their
value, and the interest, which ranges from twelve to
twenty-five per cent absorbing all their profits
the country are however. on foot, and among these
the meat preserving process recently discovered
seems likely to have very good chance OF success
the very few things here that is cheap, and
which sells at three or four or five cents pound,
England In ships specially built for the trade, and
provided with a new patent refrigeratng process.
About G., 900 have been subscribed to make trial
trip, and If 1t should prove successful there will be
very likely an enormous revenue realized from the
sale OF our surplus meat. Millions OF carcasses OF
sheep are now boiled down every year simply for the
sake Of the taow
There are now two kerosene refining companies in
Sydney, one OF which has already begun It's opera.
rapid completion. No petroleum springs have
as yet been discovered in the AuStralias,
American gentleman, MIR. Mortimer about eighty
miles up the country, at place called Hartley, q
second seam Of similar character being shortly
after struck in the same neighborhood These COM
panes propose to disil kerosene from the shale,
and hope to be able TO do so at a cost which will
enable them to expe American kerosene from the
Australian market. In this expectation they are
probably somewhat too sanguine, but 1t is quite
possible In view OF the protection tendencies Of the
colonies that II Australian oil can be produced at
price but slightly in excess OF imported Kerosene,
tariff sufficient to give the advantage to the former
will be adopted. 1t Is worth noting that both these
companies have been started and are largely con-
trOled by Americans
There Is scarcely any news Of interest from either
Queensland or South Australia In the former colony
there been great excitement the trial and
victon Of a man named Griffin, an ex-gold commits
tates for the murder OF two troopers, who form ed
together with himself, the government escort Of a
sum OF about "a 900. Griffin, it is supposed, killed
his comrades as they slept in their tent at the camp
He has been sentenced to death without any hope
being held out to him Of reprteve or a commuta-
In South Australia there is said to be general
failure Of the wheat crop, most OF the wheat having
1t is reported there will probably be large shipments
Of breadstuffs in the coming few months from Cali.
fornia. South Australia Is in great measure the
granary Of Victoria, while New South Wales grows
only about enough for her own consumption.
The sale Of some colonial grown sugar at the ex.
tremey respectable price Of f36 ton has attracted
good deal OF attention from the capitalists OF the
colony, and there can be no doubt that ere long
considerable amount OF capital Will be diverted into
oh Ia w N hQl
made the experiment had never seen sugar canes
growing before and has raised his crop solely from
information CLEANED from books. That the trial will
be lucrative thing for him be at once perceived
when 1t is noted that from twenty.three acres OF
We5 G % ne mas oa q
extremely satisfactory result has been obtained with
comparatively small expenditure for labor. There
the staple productions Of the rOpicalportiOn Of the
colonies before many years have elapsed.
The Deadlock In observation-disclosures Of the
Governor-Failure of the Wheat Crop
from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Value Of Chi.
nese Emigration-Silver Mining.
MELBOURNE, April 80, 1868.
Now that the Prince has gone home and O'Farrell
has been executed, the deadlock which has existed
in the government here for the past two or three
years, its normal conspicuous place in the
columns OF the newspapers and the minds OF the pub
lic Its settlement still as remote and unlikely
as ever In fact the political situation is yet more
tangled and complex than before, and every move
of the three powers interested, the Governor, the
Council and the Assembly, seems but to strengthen
by another cord the Gordian knot more particularly
known under the name Of the Darling Grant question:
The history of this curious quarrel is q singular
illustration Of the facility with which petty squabbles
grow into dangerous and ercely contested conflicts
and Of what big troubles very little men sometimes
able bring about. The great question: politically in
this colony has been for long time past the same
problem which Is now agtating the United States
the vexed and exciting one Of protection or free
trade which is the best policy for new and youth
full communityY" The masses OF the workingmen
are Of course In favor OF high tariff and they have
succeeded In making the colony to great extent
q protective community. Between two and three
years ago. in one Of the incidental contests upon
this question, the relgning Governor, Sir Charles
Darling, interfered in favor OF the protection
party In somewhat unusual manner 1.-THE full par
tcuars OF this part OF the story altogether too
tedious and unimportant to be rclatedD. and was
reprimanded and recalled In consequence by the
home government The party he had 80 impru-
IDENTITY favored, who were In majority In the Assem-.
bly,, apprecatlng his services, at once voted grant
sort OF recognition OF the losses her husband had
sustained for their benefit. But while they had
power to pass the grant in the Appropriation bill
through the popular branch OF Parliament, they
were powerless In the Council 1.-THE members OF
which are elected by men possessing more than
flOO Year,, who. hold office for life,
and who are mostly free traders. A struggle
between the two departments of the legislative
department Of the government thus took its
rise, and 1t has lasted ever since. The new
Governor, Sir II. NJ. sutton, came out here with
instructions to conciate matters and make things
pleasant all round, but this he has found to be q
task OF extreme difficulty; at least he has not sue
ceeded very brilliantly so far At the present time
things at their very worst. and must therefore,
as some people think, mend at an early date.
ling grant in the Appropriation bill. The Council
have persistcntly refused to pass II, and the
consequence that the servants OF the government
have not received any pay for the past four or five
months Pitable indeed Is the condition OF some OF
them. Many have been compelled to dispose OF their
furniture and to pawn their Clothes or else to sell
their claims against the government to hungry
usurer5 at a ruinous loss. Now and then one sees
an advertisement something like this:-"To SELL a
nearly new piano belonging TO u civil servant.
| Terms very low for cash."
or course the Governor not being successful, has