AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 148, 23 June 1904, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

FEDERAL ARBITRATION BILL. fl'RKtm ASSOCIATION.! (Received June 23, 10.41 a.m.) MELUOURNE. This Day. Tho House of Ropicsentativen bus* not nnidhed tho discussion on tho amendment to the Arbitration Bill in favour of eliminating the clause giving preference to unionists. Opponents* of tho clause argue that thcru i^ a tendency of tho unionists, when once they obtain power, to make tho unions n closo organisation, «nd New Zealand was quotecl us iui example. SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S ATTITUDE. ADELAIDE, This D.iy. Tho Premier bus announced that tho Government intends to resist the first application of tho Federal Atbilration Bill to Stnto tervuiits. QUEENSLAND NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION. . DEFEATED BY ONE VOTE. BRISBANE, This Day. The want-of-confidence motion moved in the Assembly last week, wa« defeated by only ono vote, the figures being 36 to 35. As soon as the division wns takon tho Premier adjourned the House till Tuesday, when ho will announce the Government's intentions. MR. CRICK DECLINES A POSITION. (Received June 23, 10.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Mr. Crick has onnounced that ho declined his late collepgucs' offer of tho Chairmanship of tho Land Appeal Couit.