FEDERAL POLITICS
Melbourne, October 16. Mr Reid’s speech was hardly up to his usual former expectations. He usually scores his best points off interruptions, the Government knowing this took the precaution to warn their followers not to interrupt, and evidently the Opposition leader felt the want of the spur. Mr Barton will make an effort to get a division on Friday. Brisbane, October 15. The exports from the State for the past nine months has decreased nearly a million, and the imports £85,000 compand with the same period of last year. , (Received October 17, 9 37 a.m.) * Brisbane, October 17. The Sugar Journal, commenting on the Kanaka Bill, asserts that the highest wages would not make up for the shattered constitutions of women and puny children if while men are employed in the cane fields. Asiatics able to read and write a European language, but useless for any industry, are to be admitted, while Polynesians, many of them Christians, are to be deported. The least Parliament can be asked is to place the Kanaka on no worse a footing than the Asiatics.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1075, 17 October 1901, Page 2
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