AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 104, 30 October 1900, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION.

, « t A SUGGESTED SITE FOR THE CAPITAL. [press association.] SYDNEY, 29th October. Sir William Lyne (Premier of New South Wales) and a large Parliamentary party are visiting Orange, one of the | sites suggested for the, Federal capital. They are being banqueted by the residents. . LONDON, 29th October. The Daily Telegraph states thstf the Duke and Duchess of York in going to Australia prefer to traved in one of the regular liners, escorted by cruisers, to sailing in the ne\r Royal yacht. HOBART, 29th October. Mr. J. F., Hogan, M.P. for Mid-Tip-perary in the last House of Commons, who cornea to Australia as the Federal Commissioner of the London Daily Chronicle, arrived to-day 'by the Paparoa. [Mr. J. F. Hogan, who left England for Australia for the purpose of describing for a London daily paper the inauguration of the Commonwealth, was (says the Westminster Gazette, writing before the recent dissolution of the Home Parliament) formerly on the literary staff of 'the- Melbourne Argus, having previously been in the Education Department at Victoria. His interest in all colonial •questions amounts almost to a passion, he is secretary of the Colonial Party in the House of Commons, and there are few days when he fails to fire off some interrogatory or other at Mr. Chamberlain, whether it be on the question of Tongaland or in reference to one of his beloved Australian colonies. Personally one of the quietest of men in Parliament, Mr. Hogan,- when not in the Chamber itself, may almost invariably be seen scanning the colonial papers in the readingroom, /but always in the arm chair nearest the door which is sacred to his person.]

The Premier has received the following reply from. 'Sir W. J. Lyne, Premier of New South WaleS, ifc reply to" the offer of the Government to forward a contingent of New Zealand Mounted Infantry to take part in the inauguration of the Commonwealth in January next: — "ReI ferring to your telegram of to-day, the inauguration celebrations will extend over about a week, commencing on- lsj; January. We gladly, accept New Zealand^, friendly . offer of a,- contingent of--mounted infantry, and are much gratified at this , spontaneous offer to do honour to fhe Australian nation. I will write you, further upon the subject." • The Hon. F". Wi Holder-, Premier of South Australia,, wired : "Re your, telegram, of the 20th instant, I am. very much gratified at this evidence of the sympathy of New Zealand in our great national event. Inauguration will take place in Sydney on Ist January."