Australian Politics

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 123, 23 November 1893, Page 2

Australian Politics

(PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION). Sydney, This Day. Sir George Dibbs in moving the second reading of the Bank Bill said if it became law it would go a long way towards placing the banking institutions in the Colony on something likn the footing of the Sank of England. This legislation was required not in the interests of the banks but in the interest of trading community. Mr McMillan desired to limit the Bill to twelve months, but Sir G. Dibbs dissented from this though he was willing to make the term two years. Mr McMillan remarked that the next eighteen months would be a period of better recovery for the country. The second reading of the Bill was carried by 65 to 34. The Legislative Council is considering the Federation Bill in committee. Sir Henry Parkes visits Perth nest month chiefly in the interests of fedora* tion. A bill has been introduced in the Legislative Assembly providing that Par* liament shall not be dissolved by the demise of the Crown, which also is not to affect anything done in the colony before the date of the proclamation of such demise. Melboubne, This Day. A meeting of Waterside workers enthusiastically carried a resolution that tho time has arrived when workers engaged in shipping should coino into line and that a Union be formed called the Associated Waterside Union of Australasia and affiliated direct with the Australian Labor Federation. The Legislative Council' has restored the land value clause in the Assessment Bill. This clause enables ratepayers in municipal corporations to have assessments made on the unimproved values of land. Tho Bill has passed, subject to the Assembly's consideration of the amendments Hobabt, This Day. Fourteen out of the 28 constituencies will be uncootested at the coming elections.