AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12479, 19 April 1901, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH.

THE FEDERAL CAPITAL. APPOINTMENT OF PERMANENT ~ . . OFFICALS. ' THE CELEBRATION AT MELBOURNE. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 18. ~ The Government Gias decided to reserve fifteen miles square at each of the Bombala, Yass and Orange sites recommended for the Federal capital. ' i MELBOURNE, April 18. . The Federal'Cabinet has decjded to draw fita--o-.ffioial» from'"t>hef- pUT>Kc*"sm ? various States. This, it is supposed, is due to the ferment raised' over the appointment of Mr Fegan as Under-Secretarv of Home Affairs. ; " A great demand for accommodation has set in. Thirty shillings to forty shillings per day are asked in some cases for firstclass ■accommodation.' The Norwegian residents -will decorate a portion of the route. Ten thousand' invitations have been issued, for the various, functions. [Pes Peess Association.} DUNEDIN, April 18. A cable message has been received, stating that Mr A. Thomson, of this city, has been appointed President of the United Commercial Travellers' Association of Australasia, and invited by the -Victorian Government to attend the Commonwealth celebrations in Melbourne on May 6. 1 AUCKLAND, April 18. The Auckland detachment 0 f the Federal Contingent, numbering 12, under SergeantMajor Rolles, left for Ghristchurch, in the Ngapuhi yesterday.. Major N. L. D. Smith has arrived in Ghristchurch from Wellington to take command of ■ the Federal Contingent. He is now engaged in drilling the men, who are already encamped at the Drillshcd grounds. The contingent will probably leave for Sydney about Friday week.