AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 58, 14 July 1913, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

I THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS

LBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association ! Melbourne, July 13. Although the Electoral Department is as vet unable to declare the final polls, the figures received by the Daily Telegraph from electoral officers show that the number of votes cast for candidates for the House of Representatives was as follows: Liberals 921,361 Labor 912,049. Independents 49,183 For the Senate, 2,846,472 fjT Liberal candidates and 2,778,496 for- Labor, 108,572 votes being accorded to the Independents.

NEW SOUTH WALES PBO-

GRAMME

Sydney, July 13

Mr Holman, Premier, speaking at Gundagai, delivered a Government policy speech. Already, he said, the Government had revoked the leases of five million:acres and another million would be made available in the near'future. 1 He hoped in a few years to make fifteen million acres available for settlement and pass legislation for opening up the country and ending,the curse of decentralisation. Building the new border and other railways and duplicating trunk lines were outlined. The Government also intended immediately to start an underground scheme connecting the city with North Sydney. He defended the expenditure on public works. The measures foreshadowed included lower rents for workers' homes, Bills compelling delinquent husbands in gaol to support their wives, and a Public Service. Superannuation x>dl.

PLATFORM OF THE PROGRES-

SIVES

Sydney, July 14. ' The new Parliamentary Party, the National Progressives, of which Mr fieehy is president, adopted a platform, which included the submission to a referendum of amendments to the Commonwealth Constitution; State Parliamentary reform, embracing preferential voting, proportional representation, modification of party government, land and railway development, decentralisation, improvement of industrial legislation, national insurance against sickness and unemployment, a superannuation scheme for all public servants, expansion of educational facilities and anti-trust legislation

(Received 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, July 14

Mr Holman's speech at Gundagai promised an underground city railway system, but not in Connection with North Sydney.