THE COMMONWEALTH.
| THE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. j | Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ] I .SYDNEY, January 22. j | Sir Wilfrid Laurier has cabled to Mr t Barton that he hopes to attend the opening j I of the Federal Parliament. j | SYDNEY, January 25. j ? (Received January 23, at 8.52 a.m.) j The difficulty Mr Barton has in filling the portfolio is attributed to the fact j rtthat Northern politicians are looking askance = aat his utterance on the black labor question. I 3 Sir W. J. Lyne, in a statement at Albury, 3 jjsaid that he thought that the tariff would \ fbe more ad valorem in character than pro- j tftective. f J Mr Barton states that any such opinion hjj |purely speculative. The Minister of Cus- 5 jtoms is not yet in a position to suggest any \ lltariff that is likelv to be finally adopted. i I ' : \
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Evening Star, Issue 11454, 23 January 1901, Page 6
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144THE COMMONWEALTH. Evening Star, Issue 11454, 23 January 1901, Page 6
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