AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXV, Issue 283, 20 May 1904, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

A Coalition Arranged. Telegraph Press Association Copyright Melbourne, May 19. A Deakinite caucus deoided that there could be no coalition excepting under the leadership of Deakin, and subsequently the Hon Keid forwarded a letter to Deakin, waiving any claim that he might have to the leadership. Mr Deakin says his reason for not wishing to take office was due to the pain of being separated from his old colleagues. He* looked to Sir G. Turner to lead his party. No furthur developments have been revealed to-night. London, May 19. The Daily News says that Mr Watson's proposals have an extraordinary interest for the British public for it will be remarkable as a programme aiming at the consolidation of the Commonwealth to an extent never before attempted, and at the speedy completion of the machinery of the Australian nationality, should be carried out by a Labour Ministry. Received May 20, 9.80 a.m. Melbourne, This Day. The Senate passed a motion affirming that the iron works should be owned by the Government. The House appointed a select committee to enquire into the means of providing for Old Age Pensions by the establishment' of a Government tobacco monopoly.