NEWS BY CABLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3433, 12 February 1890, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

FOREIGN.

ENGLISH. London, February 9. The'sum of. £50,000 is being placed on the estimates for the expenses of tlie Parnell Commission, A Bill validating colonial mat' riages will be introduced again this session.

Paris, February 9. The Duod'Orleani has appealed to President Carnot. The oity has recovered from thb temporary excitement caused by his arrest. Montreal, February 9, Meetings are being held s in this city 10 insist on Canada becoming''a free.uation.

Australian.

FEDERATION.

I Melbourne, February 11, i At the C'onfereuoo yesterday Sir H. i Parkes said it seemed to him that • what was required. was a central. '< Government,, to frame law's by which | the whole of the group nbould be ] governed, Buoh Government to havo I an executive body, with full power to administer such laws uuder a carefully framed constitution, The example of America should be a warning that States under an Act of Federation, had attempted to. work without a proper constitution, but had utterly failed. Nothing Bhorfc of a complete constitution would serve the purpose they had in view in Australia, and he would repeat that America 'had failed altogether in trying to live as merely confederate States. It was the struggle for sovereign power on the part of the States which brought-their union about. The complete nature of that union could'be seen in the circumstance that any free man could walk through any part of the States just as if he was in the streets of New York.or Boston. It was true that country had imposed taxes—in Borne casessevere taxes nponoommoditiesof the outside world, but between any two places within the territory there was not a single custom house from one end of the country to the other, Trade was as free as air, We was one of those who believed,' so far' as his judgment went-and he had had soma experience-that it would be simply playing at legislation if the attempt was made to create a Federal Governmsiit without the power which belonged to suoh Government. He was as anxious as anyone well could be to preserve the right and privileges of a great colony like New South Wales. Indeed, lie would be ashamed to go baok to the colony .whjoli had always treated him with suoh kindness if he felt that he had not taken everv j precaution to guard her interests* But Federal Government must be a Government fully armed with plenary power in matters relating to defence j and tariff arid to all cognate subjeots > j.in respeot to all the functions of ! National Government. It must have ■ power' ;to build ships and "enlist ■ soldiers, and in. many other wayß ' exercise.the-powers of o. supreme j Government, It might bo wise that , this National Government should be | acoqmpaniedby State or ; Provincial ] legislation, but it should' be deoided , from the tery-first that"* com-

pleleG t ovemuVent fitted 4o r . perform Ijlir: highest, fmicliois oi; the liation';! should ; be. formed. He did.! hof?know the: feelings of, the Conference, and; had not been in communicationv with any of the members constituting it, as he desired to attend with his mind untrammelled even iu thought, and to meet the '--representatives of the other colonies in fair ? and open- ground with the piio great object of resolving themselves into a nation regulating and defining the rights of the .several; 1 colonies. It was, he contended, their bounderi duty to see to tbis, for no Federal Government could exist with satisfaction and with power sufficient for its: high purpose unless held in harmony with what was justly due to theßovoral colonies. Heiskedthe delegates to bear in mind .tlioy were there as the representatives of the whole of the people of Australia, and he would askthom to remember there was growing up in the colony a native element which would shortly overwhelm them, and they might expect to Bee rising up a generation better perhaps than they and wiser than they. ,