FEDERAL PARLIAMENT
MELBOURNE, June 24.
In tbe Federal House an amendment to the Judiciary Bill striking out the provision for the judges' pensions was carried against the Government by 29 to 20. The division was taken as a test on the whole question of pensions. The House immediately adjourned, Sir E. Barton stating that the result of the division would not affect the bill.
Senator Dobson has been given leave to introduce a bill to repeal the clause in the Postal Act which prohibits mail steamers under contract being manned by coloured labour.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 62
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