STATE V. COMMONWEALTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 August 1907, Page 2

STATE V. COMMONWEALTH.

ANTI-FEDERAL RESOLUTIONS. MOVEMENT IN WESTRALIA. ' A BELLICOSE SECESSIONIST. Perth, August 22, The Municipal Council baa endorsed the request from' the Anti-Federal League that Parliament should be asked to take immediate steps to secure West tralia's withdrawal from the Federation.

The discussion disclosed a strong antiFederation feeling.

Councillor Hcaly considered there was only one way out. That waß to fight. The State had only a quarter of a million people, but a man with a just cause was as good as three others. If they took up arms they could get out of the Federation in twenty-four hours. _ He did not want to waste time in passing a resolution. They should aet at onoe.

THE WISE NETTING INCIDENT.

WALES' CHALLENGE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

Sydney, August 22. Mr Carruthers "ordered the removal of the wire netting "under advice from the Grown law authorities, founded on a Supreme Court judgment given four years ago. u . .^

EXTREME COURSE PROBABLE. Melbourne', August 22. Sir W. Lyno, Federal Treasurer, stated in the Mouse of Repiesentatlves that neither the New South Wales Government nor any other government was gqing to take anything by force. He hoped that if necessity arose, members would support him in an extreme course.

LONDON PRESS COMMENT. Received 22nd, 9.20 p.m. London, August 22. The Daily Chronicle declares Mr Carruthers' iB a remarkable symptom of the particularist feeling surviving in some of the States. ~. .. ~

AN INJUNCTION SERVED^ A HIGH-HANDED DEFENCE. Received 22nd, 10.35 p.m. ■ Sydney, August 22. The Federal Government has served an injunction on the New South Wales Government, calling upon the State At-torney-General to show cause why an injuction should not issue to restrain the Government for fptjier interfering with imports which have not been cleared at the Customs, and why a declaration should not issue compelling the return of the wire nettirig taken. The matter comes before tho High Court to-morrow. The State Government will raise the question whether there exists any jurisdiction in the High Court to deal with the matter under the Customs Act, and this will involve argument on the basio 'question whether the State Government is bound by Act in atiy way.