AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4295, 2 March 1901, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH

SF.OX.KY, ALrcb I. Tho writs for cue New South Wales Perioral Senate elections wiil be issued on 51b AJarcb, lo b" rotnrnable on lUtii April. Those for the .Mouse will lie ismed on. Tltli Alurcii, and made, rotunii'jle on lotii April. Air J. G. T. '.McGowen, leader of tho Gaboui- parly, is ainor.e-t the. ivmdidates for the House s r 'ecletl by UtC ProicctiGnist parly. \ BRISBANE, M.ii-di 1. The Rigid; lion E. IJarlou and the Hon <T. G. Drake Jdu-c addressed meetings; at Maryborough and Cyinpie. The ■‘Brisbane Courier” warmly attacks Mr Barton's attitude on iho binds labour que&Mon, wbicli, i ! ; says, is tota fly at variance with Unit, ol tuo State. Government. It denies that there was a. tacit ■nmlers.tan.’iug on * .reinlroducing tho traffic that it should (ast'only ton. years, and ii claim'; the samo consideration for the sugar Industry as Mr Barton so readily promised the Victorian industries. (Received March I, 10.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, Marc!i 'l. The Postal and the Laud and Naval Defence Depart incuts passed over from State to Federal control to-day. With regard to the Defence Department, there is to he virtually no change in tile, administration until the Federal Parliament passes u Defence Act, HIGHLAND VOLU NTEERS. DUNEDIN, March 1. Representations have been made to the Premier by Scuttssb societies that the various Highland Volunteer .corps iu tho colony should he as muck in evidence as possible in the contingent to bo sent- to the opening; of the Federal Parliament; in Adclbounie. The corps are Dunedin, Wellington am! Wanganui. The idea is to scud them in their own uniforms instead of in khaki. (deceived March A, 1.3 a.m.) BRISBANE, March, 1. ’Nominations for the Federal Senate closed to-day. Fifteen wore received at Brisbane, including the Hou J. G. Drake (Federal Pos t mastcr-Goncra 1), r’.iG lion A. J. Thynne and A. S. Cowley (members of the Si ate Council) and' .Messrs T. Glas.sey, TV. G. Higgs, A. Dawson, J. V. Stewart and C. Macdonald (labour members of the State Assembly).