CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 21, 26 January 1897, Page 2

CONFERENCE OF PREMIERS.

SUBJECTS FOIL DISCUSSION,

The following fubj n.bs will be considered st the Conference oi Australasian Premiers at Hobart:—(l) Closer i-.rade union with the Mother Country ; ['2) intercolonial reciprocity ; (3) AuHtialucian naval squadron agreement; (4) lighthouse at Snares und tbe question of lighthouse- generally ; (5) reservation of colonial bills for ih.- Royal assent; (6) local and intercolonial precedence : (7) competition ot oversea vnssols with coloured cews in trie Australasian coastal brade ; (0) uniformity o; Icjislatinn with regard to meicaniile marks; (9i reciprocity as to admi-sion ot member? of the leuul profession ; (10) summoning witnesses from tho other colonies ; (11) law aa to bringing back doserting husbands nn<l parents; (12) judicial no tic., boititr taktin of laws ol .uhor colonies in iegal prrx._diuga; (!3) assimilation of law.-. roiaiinL' to engagement, etc., ol seamen, etc. ; (11) alteration in tho mode of preparing statistics relating to imports itnd export- ; (15) position of Western Australia and Tasmania ifgurding the ievolutions of the Sydney Conference aa to federal quarantine and smallpox ; 16) holding of another conference relative to smallpox; (17) treaty with Japan ; (18) i-suo of free posse* to Paris Exhibition of 1,900; (19) celebration of Queen's roign of sixty year. ; (20) que-th.>n of Minister to represent Australaaia ab the W 7aahtngto» Pnsta! Conference ; (21) codification r>f commercial law of United Kingdom anil colonies ; {'22) federal commercial la>v for Australasia and reference to bunkrui.it.cy, carriers by land and sea, partnerships, joint tstock companies, and other coguatu