AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 39, 26 May 1910, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

SPEECH BY THE PREMIER. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, May 25. Mr. Fisher, speaking at Narrandera, said the Labor Party had never doubted the ability of the British Fleet to pro- 1 tect Australasia, but no nation ever be-' came great which deputed its detence to other people. Australians must under-J take the task themselves. Referring to the cable service, hesaid the news of the world, as supplied' in the cables in the daily press, was not' merely inadequate, but misleading. They! did not want to hear about dog fighte and big dinners. They wanted to know! how the cause of humanity was progress-' ing in every part of the world. He hoped a better cahle service might he inaugurated soon over a State line of, their own. LABOR PARTY AND THE HIGH I COURT. , Melbourne. Mav 25. j Mr. Molonev, a member of the Federal) House, speaking at Wodonga. sr.id that) it was said in some quarters that the! Labor Pnrtv would be blocked bv the High Fonrt. but the Government would> not allow anybody to stand in tlie way, of the people'* wilV The dav of oh-.' stnrction bv the Tli::'h Court or Legisla-] tiro f'oint-ils had. passed, and these in-, stitut'on* would not. be in consonance wftli the declarations of the ■peo-ile. Tf nece-sarv the same people would bo appealed to to wine «nt. t-he' restrictions confaiiiod in the constitu-j tion. .At ? Labor ioiuonsfration H; Warr-! nambool a new toast—"The Glorious 13th of April"—was ihonored. I