A STEP TOWARDS CONFEDERATION.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 473, 25 April 1867, Page 4

A STEP TOWARDS CONFEDERATION.

Anxt:u.ng that leans to unite the Ansir.dasian ccba.ien in one bund for pur ,■Ol5 useful to all, is a step in the i Hat outciien, because their conihole.! < iV.nls to gain the object, wliaiit may be, are sure to be attendeu .vitii greater success than the desultory, and, perhaps, conlliciing, endoa-

vmw of scutate colonies, each relying i on its imlividu J power and inlhmnci i in the old ciiuifry. ami actfng without ■ consulting Us neighbors. V. e rejoice, then, to see that im- Postal Conference at Melbourne has resulted in union i i’.’.r a desirable object, other that the settlement of postal routes and arraugemots. Tiic Argus of 27th ii •’ontaius the foil oving account ..l an agt\ ament arrived at by the delegates with regard to intercolonial law : During the stay in Melbourne of the acntK hO'n who came to represent (lie ge in'..; e ilo.des at the Postal Conference, they held a meeting to consider th? state of the law with rc-pest to the arrest in one oniony of persons gui.ty ol alienees in am other, i- in' linpi-n.i! ael at present in force only extends to treason and felony, am! consequently ollences cannot be arrested as Miuii as they p.-s» tile borders of the ;colony in w hicli tiicic transgression of the ii.r.v has been eeuikta.l. Alter some can-j.-ahation, a was mutually agreed that a despatch shoinit i.<e forwarded by each Coi.mial government to (ho Imperial audl.Oiiiies, ivqdestpig tiiat a short act shoula i he passed exlencing tiie provisions of the measure beforerclcrrcdtoto misdemeanors. Year by year there will doubtless arise many other subjects on which .consultation and combined action may |be requisite, so that we may reason-j i ably look forward ere long to a regujiarty constituted Australasian I‘ariiajm;iit vit ii piobably one of the Princes 'of urn Blood lU.yai as Viceroy of the Youth. i