Australian Politics.
(Per Press Association.) Melbourne, This Day. Parliament has been prorogued to March 30fch. The Governor's speech expresses gratification at the passage of the Federation Bill which has brought the question wifchin measurable distance of realisation, also, at tbe revision of the tariff, and railway management bills and regrets the Constitution, Factories and Companies Bills failed to. become law. The Executive appointed a. board to enquire into the charges made in Parliament by Mr Sangster as to the negligeut administration of the shipping laws. Brisbane, This Day. The Premier addressed a very large meeting. He insisted retrenchment was absolutely necessary and expected about the same surplus as last year. With regard to the agitation against Kanakas he said to put a sudden stop to the employment of coloured labour would meau a serious injury if not ruin to one of the colony's finest industries. For every Kanaka there v/evo numbers of white men employed. Thev-e were ample loan flings iq hand to construct all the railways passed by Parliament to pay interest, to carry on administration and to, leave a working balance of half a million,. The finances continued to. improve.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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192Australian Politics. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 210, 9 March 1896, Page 2
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