THE COMMONWEALTH

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 12025, 11 December 1901, Page 3

THE COMMONWEALTH

CABLEGRAMS. [FIB PRESS ASSOaiATION.—aOPTaiaHT.]

CANADIAN CO-OPEBATION. Melbourne, Tuesday. In the tariff debate prints, cotton and linen piece goods (plain white and unbleached), bookbinders’ cloth, saddlers’ webbing, galvanised iron sheeting and piping, and lead were placed on the free list. The Federal Minister of Defence has stated that no provision can be made in the Estimates for sending a team to Bisley next year. The Federal Government are awaiting the necessary action of the Imperial Government before assuming control of New Guinea. Sir Wilfred Lanrier, Premier of Canada, has cabled to Mr Barton that the Canadian Government propose to meet representatives of the Australian and New Zealand Governments in London next June, or at another convenient time, to consider trade, postal, cable, and other intercolonial matters, and he trusts the Commonwealth Government will cooperate. Mr Barton replied agreeing to the proposal. The Queensland Premier, in the course of his reply to Mr Barton’s letter on the Kanaka Bill, says he haa no hesitation in saying that if Mr Barton had made it clearly known when the question of federation was in balance that he was prepared to carry out the extreme policy disclosed in the. bill Queensland would not now be a member of the union.