AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12411, 28 November 1908, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS

THE FEDEKAIi OPPOSITION. -CAPITAL SITES BILL. COMMONWEALTH DEFENCE FORCES. IPhess Association— Cofyeight.] Melbourne, Not. 26. Mr Joseph Cook has been elected Leader of the Opposition. "8 A resolution vas adopted regretting Mr Q. T^. Reid's retirement, and appreciation of bis splendid services to tbe party. ..Id the House Mr Mabon, Secretary for Home Affairs, introduced the Capital Site Bill. It provides an art-a of not less than 900 square miles. A return was t» bled in the Senate showing that in seven years the Common wealth Defence Forces had been reduced from 29,009 to 22,63 L