FEDERATION COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 35, 15 February 1901, Page 2

FEDERATION COMMISSION.

i i' :r: i , l;i. i Tno Ooamiisiioa conj iill u, 1 to-day. J air. ■!, Sii;'--"k!ocl.", range mik'-r, j> "y i tUiij! i it wuiil'i i .1• the p>-.. .?f the colony s<* a / ••.•h.-.lt*. S-. }>i- ■■■ i:is Ok u InwincKs vni I • mi'f rceJ h ; '.it''.: y 1 tlK> m ■ rkot woulrt jfet- onlai-, OJ ; : mdi'io. * i'.i";;; etj ul |ho tjuld couaj-o'j with . H■; ' thc'Jgbt the :l v >»ui n»''. f tho AbitruMou f'ouit was

.'air '.he highvr waj.v.s. 511'. J. Sparrow, geienl engirec-r, had done work [or. Now .South Wall s, buS could not l .impute with Victoria and its duty in tho iron trade. Condit'in-; of labour were oot v?>ry diflercat in Now Zeuland and Australia.

Mr. F. Mallard, insurance expert, could hot con-, sivo of any gain ta the colony by Federation. Mr. M. Coho\ journalist, while declining to definitely commit himself at i present, favoured Federation. He was ! convinced as ar: suit of a careful enquiry thai) Austi ilia would not Agree in any son.o with a rfc.'iproral treaty I witn New Zealand. Ho was ccuvine d (New Zetland would b\> admitted as if Jan original Stato.

] Mr. Scobia McKe&zio said ha was 'opposed to Federation as it was taking ;'away the lisb'-s of self government ,from New Zealand. He hod never ] oncountered uno 6ingle lvason why jNew Zealand should federate with iAustralia. Tho h.a of tho right of ! soli' govarnmpufc w; i too hig a thing to Ibe weighed in thn bdsnea with oats, 'a!-;"ufp" f ur.iK. o- cnyt.hing else. ! '.•'be o■inimisH'i.r.; expect to cinclude in ') u a.di."- '■.'• i','^'iifirjiit,