FEDERATED AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 52, 2 March 1901, Page 5

FEDERATED AUSTRALIA.

I'JIl- FEDERAL, ELECTION'S

'.I'll i-: FEDERAL CAMPAIGN. A FIERCE ASD BITTER BATTLE. (.By Cable.—Pi ess Association.— ' Copyright.; SYDNEY, this j Though Mr Crick has been practi- ■ cally iimbeci of ms porttoiio i,,' the i transference of the post Oi_cc to the | Federation, nothing tteiinite is yet | agreed upon with tegard to a rearrangement of tiic State Ministry. i Sir Win. Lymes holding of tue Premiership is much commented upon. I3RISP.ANE, this day. Mr llnrton • visited I'.undaberg and spent a day visiting the sugar plantations an. conversing with growers |ou rite question of black labour, lie j was presented with an address from i while workers, which eulogised him ; ior ike promised abolition of kanaka labour. BRISBANE, March 1. Nominations closed to-day for the ! Federal Senate, fifteen being received, : including Mi- Drake. Federal Pcst-vnnsler-Cieuernl: Messrs Thynne and (Rowley, members of the Council; Messrs Ghtssey, liiggs. Dawson, Stewari and McDonald. Labour members of the Assembly. The Federal campaign is in full swing, and the voice of the political charmer is beard throughout- the ■length and breadth of Ihe Coinmonj wealth. Tlie various parlies are hard :il work, closing ii]) their rrmks. and. from large crops of aspirants, selecting bunches for the House and Senate. Unity is the burden and declared desideratum of every speech, bill (lie ideas upon which they 'should I" 1 united are wondrously deeply linged in most e-ises by party nredileetions :ind circumscribed by Stale boundaries, l-.'vcry Slate has its pet question. In New Sou-lb Wales and Victoria, (hanks chiefly io Mr Reid. assisted by a. Land of able lieilieiisnds. and with an influential press in support, the old '"free ! ratio versus protection cry.'" is forced to the front. The battle is being made a fierce and bit <er one. In Cjueenshi.nd interest centres round black labour, one of the niosi difficult problems the Federal Covernment ha\ c to deal wb It. Mr Hurt on. is at present making an extended tour of the Northern Slate,, with lite double object of stinlying the 'question and convincing the sugar growers of the desirableness of a w Idle Ausl ralin. j Tho South Australians have a. transcontinental railway for Ore development of Northern Territory, as their fighting plat form. Tin- Wcsfralinn campaign Is being carried on on less ardently, though the special ini'ilT concession granted to this State under the Commonwealth I'ill is regarded as a source of much enngrnl uhnion. Tasmanians are loyally federal, but have a grievance in the want of more substantial representation in the Federal Cabinet, and candidates are strenuously voicing that want. The Labour Party is vigorously putting forward its claims in the various Stales, and is providing a good quota of candidates. BRISBANE, this day. Allogether seventeen nominations have been received for the Federal Senate. SYDNEY,'this day. Mi- MeCowan, lender of the Labour Party, in a speech said he owed no allegiance to any party in the Federal campaign. Ostensibly the issue, as raised in the metropolitan press, was free trade or protection, but it wan raised only to divide the people, ami allow Conservatives lo get elected. The real object was not to secure fvrc trade, but to kill the Labour Party. MELBOURNE, this day. Writs for the Federal elections have been issued. Mr Kingston states if the Ministry decides to bring down the tariff in the first session of Parliament he would be prepared with the necessary recommendations.