AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.
STATEMENT BY MR SEDDON.
SYDNEY, March 26. Mr Seddon has informed Mr Lyne
that he has been at great pains to circulate amongst the press that New Zealand wishes certain amendments to (be obtained in a friendly manner, but 'otherwise he has no hostility towards 'the Commonwealth Bill. He refers to Mr Reeves having cleared up the'misapprehension caused by the statement in St. James' Budget, Mr Seddon 'claims that it would have been out |of place to have interfered in a friendly manner when the Bill was before the Australian people, but being before the Imperial Parliament it was ihis duty to see that it was not unjust I towards New Zealand or any other | outlying State. He also understood that one of the delegates in an interjview in the "Daily Chronicle" used | language which was very fre,e in reference to Sir John Forrest and Mr Seddon, doing them an injustice and (declaring that he (Mr Seddon) wished to stop the people of New Zealand from expressing an opinion on federation.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1900, Page 2
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