. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. med, and and Turner were instructed to draft a Bill forsubmission to the electors. If these Colonies acceptedthe Bill it was to be submitted to the Queen for approvaland—Federation was accomplished. It was December 23rd before the Enabling Act waspassed in the New South Wales Parliament, and it wasaccompanied bv the resolution that a majority o
. From colony to commonwealth, being a brief history of federation. Together with a record of the festivities and ceremonies which took place in the city of Sydney on the occasion of the proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901. med, and and Turner were instructed to draft a Bill forsubmission to the electors. If these Colonies acceptedthe Bill it was to be submitted to the Queen for approvaland—Federation was accomplished. It was December 23rd before the Enabling Act waspassed in the New South Wales Parliament, and it wasaccompanied bv the resolution that a majority of 50,000was necessarv for the adoption of the Bill. In SouthAustralia no minimum vote was required, but most ofthe Colonies passed practically the same Bill as Xew 34 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. South Wales. Queensland and Westralia hesitated,and finally the Bill was lost in Queensland, and theWestralians only gave a kind of half-hearted support toit, and so the matter lingered. In the meantime a great Convention was held inBathurst in November, 1896, that showed the spirit ofthe people. The Convention numbered about 200representatives, mostly from New^ South Wales, and, byconsent, the Commonwealth Bill of 1891 was accepted as. SIR GERARD SMITH, , GOVERNOR, WEST AUSTKALLA. the basis for discussion. The outcome of that Conventionwas the development of a strong, popular federal spirit,that prepared the way for the election which was to takeplace on March 4th, 1897. In New South Wales there were 49 candidates,including Cardinal Moran (the Roman Catholic Arch-bishop of Sydney), 10 Labour members, and a FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 35 bunch of five Prudent Federalists. Each voter had lovotes, and 148,000 voted out of a total of 264,000 on theroll. The candidates selected were :— Mr. Edmund Barton, ; Hon. G. H. (Premier); Hon. j7 H. Carruthers, (Minister for Lands); Mr. W. McMillan (ex-Treasurer) ; Mr. W. J. Lyne, (Leader of Op-positi
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