AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8107, 30 March 1906, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE KANAKA QUESTION. Received Maroh 29, 8.30 a.m. MELBOURNE, Maroh 29. The Minister for Agriculture for Queensalnd. in an interview with Mr Deakin, pointed out the serious position whioh would arise after December 31at, when the Kanaka agreements became inoperative. No provison had been made for maintenance pending the deportation of six thousand Kanakas, who would be debarred from work. GOLD FOR JAPAN. Received March 29, 8.30 a.m. SYDNEY, March 29. The Japanese mail steamer takes 500,000 sovereigns ou behalf of the British banks at Kobe, and an additional 8,000 on a private account. SPEEUH BY THE FEDERAL PREMIER. THE LIBERAL AND LABOUR POLICIES CONTRASTED. Received March 30, 1.4 a.m. ADELAIDE, Maroh 29. The Hon. Alfred Deakin, Federal Prime Minister, addressed three thousand people here. Hp claimed that many of the principles of the Labour Party were those of the Liberals before the Labour Party existed. There was a broad distinction between the 'Labour Parties of the States, and that in the Federal Parliament. Those who advocated State Sooialism in the State Parliaments found there the power to giV9 effeot to their desires. In the Federation no suoh powers were possessed. There were no nationalized departments, except the Post Office. Outside the tobacco monopoly question there was no socialistic scheme before the Federal Parliament. There was, a doubt whether this oould even be proceeded with without an amendment of the constitution. The Liberal Party had as a first foundation the establishment of a scientific system of protection. The Labour Party were not divided from the Liberals on the use of the powers of the State or in the main principles of seeking sooial justice, but there was associated among its members those who desired an extension of the powers of the State, whioh threatened to absorbjthe great industrial functions of the community. <Such an extension was viewed with caution by the Liberals, and was accompanied by perils which required to be guarded against.