AN AUSTRALIAN UNION.
THE FEDERATION CONFERENCE.
NEW ZEALAND'S ATTITUDE.
Pr»s* Association.— Teltjjraph.—Copyright.
Sydney, August 2. The Federation Conference at Corowa
passed resolutions calling on the electors not to support any Government which would not place, federation in the forefront, and calling on each colony to pass a measure to elect representatives to the Statutory Convention for the purpose of considering and adopting a Bill to establish a federal constitution. This Bill is to be submitted by the referendum process to the verdict of each colony. The Conference urged the Parliaments to pass legislation at once assimilating the various tariffs, and U enter into a Customs Union to provide for the free interchange of local produce. The proceedings of the Conference are concluded.
The Herald thinks every federalist will admit that New Zealand, by standing aside instead of retarding will materially facilitate federation. An Australian Union would be a great achievement in itself, and adequate to all practical ends so far as these colonies are concerned. The non-co-opera-tion of New Zealand may affect that colony, but does not very much concern these. There may come a time when it will be to the interest of all to make the union as widely extensive as possible, but at present it is again to leave out everything extraneous to Australian union.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9269, 3 August 1893, Page 5
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