. 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. Price, £2 2s., FREE TO ANY RAILWAY STATION. Folds up like a used at the Bedside. CAN BE SEEN IN OPERATION AT HANNAM & CO., 148 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 23. THE LATE SIR HENRY PARKES (OF SYDNEV), THE FATHER OFFEDERATION. 24 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. each their own battles, striving manfully each one forits own best intere
. 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. Price, £2 2s., FREE TO ANY RAILWAY STATION. Folds up like a used at the Bedside. CAN BE SEEN IN OPERATION AT HANNAM & CO., 148 PITT STREET, SYDNEY. FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 23. THE LATE SIR HENRY PARKES (OF SYDNEV), THE FATHER OFFEDERATION. 24 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. each their own battles, striving manfully each one forits own best interests as each one saw it in that day. In the days of Governor Fitzroy our Colonial Secre-tary was Mr. Deas-Thomson, and the Governor wrotehome pointing out that it would be best to have someform of self-government here, as it was such a long wayto England. But who cared ? Deas-Thomson saw that itwas required. He was one of the early Federalists, butthe cry was not popular. When it was proposed toseparate Port Philip district from New South Wales,and make a new colony of it, Earl Grev proposed toalter our constitution and give us a Federal was July 31, 18^7. He proposed an Act of Parlia-ment which, among other things, will relate to thecreation of a central legislative authority for the whole ofthe Australian colonies. But we had never beenconsulted about any constitutional changes, and weresented the su
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