AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4310, 20 March 1901, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION

MUNICIPALITIES AND GOVERNMENT SQUABBLING.

MELBOURNE, March 19. Squabbling over the invitations to the opening of the Federal Parliament has already commenced. The Govermenc proposes to limit the municipal invitations to 1000, but the municipalities demand that every Mayor,-, Councillor and TownClerk be invited, and are using pressure to gain their end.' ADELAIDE, March 19. Five hundred troops will be sent from South Australia to the opening of the Federal Parliament. NEW ZEALAND AND THE COMMONWEALTH. SYDNEY, March 19. Tho “Sydney Morning Herald,” referring to the New Zealand Federal Commission, says tho notion that New Zealand can best attain her national destiny in isolation is one timi’ time will disprove. Whatever the will of the Commonwealth' or New Zealand, they must, find themselves on converging roads. Abstention from the Commonwealth during the earlier period would deprive New Zealand of both influence! and education in national government that would be of the highest value.

THE NEW ZEALAND COMMIS SION. (Received March 20, 1.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, March T 9. The Now Zealand Federation Commission had a long interview with Mr-Bar-ton, tho Federal Premier. The Commission examined Mr T. A. Coghlan, the New South Wales Government Statistician, and Major-General French, New South Wales Commandant