QUEENSLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 9

QUEENSLAND.

Tho Brisbane Lubour Convention negatived a motion in favour of a Federal referendum on the fiscal question, ami a mo. tion in favour of a Protectionist policy. There is considerable unrest in Queensland political circles, owing to tho emphatic Socialistic platform adopted by the Labour Convontion. A claim of £550 damages for having induced the Government to dismiss him is being brought in Rrisbane by a shipwright. Against the Shipwrights' Piovident Union. Tho Presbyterian Assembly at Brisbane debated a motion protesting against the action of the Federal Parliament in regard to the deportation of Kanakas. In view of the prevalence of dengue fever in all the towns- he intended to speak iv, th* IVxlen i P-ritno 7fci\igT«r has post-.

poned his visit to Queensland, acting under medical advice. Several leading medical men at Brisbane assert that <tho dengue fever epidemio is dying out, only isolated cases now occurring. The Queensland Treasurer expressed exceeding gratification at the amount of success attending the Government s efforts in dealing with tho unemployed in Southern Queensland. He did not think that tho scheme- was creating a kind of professional unemployed. He was afraid that was already created. It had not Ira loft to the Government to do. The Government had not been able in provide for the unemployed in Centr.il awl Northern Queensland so successfully as in the south, and no doubt Micro was a groat number of unemployed there, but he thought the statement made <\t the Labour Convention that there had never been more unemployed in tho «Sbate than now was an untrue statement, and «ii exaggeration of the regrettable fact thai Ihero was a number of unemployed (as thore always had beon) iv the early months of tho year.