FEDERAL CONVENTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 75, 1 April 1897, Page 5

FEDERAL CONVENTION.

■■■••• - ,* Adelaide, March 30. The debate concluded early this afternoon. Mr Barton, in his reply, eulogised tho nobis speech of Mr Reid, and congratulated the Convention on the manner in which the debate had been* conducted. Ho reviewed all the points thab had baen raised in a masterly speech, occupying two hours and a half, and concluded amidsb prolonged cheering; Sir John Forrest having withdrawn his amondmenb urging bho claims of bhe Commonwealth Bill, Mr Barton's resolutions were formally put and carried, and the House adjourned for a short interval to permit tho arranging of sectional committees. Barton. Carrufchers, O'Connor, and Abbobb (New Soubh Wales), Baker, Cockburn, Downer, and Gordon (South Australia), Douglas, Mooro, Lewis, and Brown (Tasmania), Peakin, Isaacs, Trenwith, and Quick (Vicboria), Le Sbehr, Hacket. Hassell, and Shaw (Western Australia), with the premiers of ihe various colonies as ex officio members havo boon appointed a constitutional committee. TEE FEDERAL CONVENTION. Adelaide, this day. There is some likolihcfod of the Constitutional Committee eubmibting a Bill to tho .Committee of the whole on Monday, bub ib will nob include financial clauses, which will take some bime longer to prepare. The Convention mot bhis morning and received a number of pefcifcions, and then adjourned till to-morrow. Thia procedure will bo pursued until the Bill is brought down.