FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OPENED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 July 1907, Page 3

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT OPENED

Received 3rd, 10.31 p.m. Melbourne. July 3. Lord Xorthcote opened Hie federal j Parliament in the presence of a large and ( brilliant gathering. The Speech referred to the Imperial Conference which would . promote a much better understanding 1 and more intimate relat'ons between. Britain and all the oversea dominions s It announced that a Bill framed on the * deeisiou of the Navigation Conference . was being dratted, and promised Bills j for the amendment of the tarilf, and s provision for bounties to encourage new j industries, it confirmed the cancellation t of the mail contract, also that arrangements were almost completed with the Orient Company to continue the existing contract another year. Kegarding the extension of the Vancouver mail contract, it mentioned an ararngement, sub- t jeet to the concurrence of the Govern- | ■livuto of Canada and Fiji, which would , participate ir the subsidy. A progressive v scheme for the improvements of harbor and coastal defence was under considera- J, tion, and local production of munitions 31 .yard would be provided for. Amongst t:ie legislation promised are Uills to prevent clashing of Privy Coun:il and High Court decisions, and for the payment of State income tax by Commonwealth sertants.