AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Evening Star, Issue 10903, 11 April 1899, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Press Asgoolatlon - By Telegraph -Copyright SYDNEY, Aphil 10. . .The political a'tmosptofe' is,,fall of rumors. It is believed that the Opposition contemplate - action -against the Government -A caucusM tna"T£arty will be held to-morrow. ;The session, which opens- tb-tnor/ow, is expected to be brief, and confined entirely to Federation matters. There is dissatisfaction amongst the Opposition on account of the majority of the new Legislative Councillors belonging to the Ereetrade section. A petition is being circulated among the electors of the King Division calling on Premier Reid to resign, because they disapprove of his attitude on the Federation question. THE FEDERAL BILL. THE N.S.W. PARLIAMENT OPENED. April 11. The Lieutenant-Governor (Sir F. M. Darley) opened Parliament at noon. Both Houses were crowded. The Speech said, that Parliament was called together to deal with a special matter of great urgency and importance. The Government considered they were under the strongest pos/ sible obligation to urge upon the Parliament the propriety of providing, for the free, untrammelled, vote of the whole body of electors oh the momentous question of federal union in harmony and the maintenance of good faith With the other colonies, whose Governments conceded the leadership of the Federal movement to New South Wales. The Government would immediately resubmit to Parliament the Convention Bill adopted by the Premier's Conference.