. 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. HON. JAMES GEORGE DRAKE (QUEENSLAND), FEDERALPOSTMASTER-GENERAL. to show clearly the result, we append the followingtable :— Colony. For the Bill. Against. 82,741 17,166 79130,996 Majority New South Wales. Victoria South Australia ... Tasmania Queensland 107,420 152,653 65,616 ,488 24,679142,848 48,45012,646 7,49^ Totals 377,614 141,499 236,115 4
. 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. HON. JAMES GEORGE DRAKE (QUEENSLAND), FEDERALPOSTMASTER-GENERAL. to show clearly the result, we append the followingtable :— Colony. For the Bill. Against. 82,741 17,166 79130,996 Majority New South Wales. Victoria South Australia ... Tasmania Queensland 107,420 152,653 65,616 ,488 24,679142,848 48,45012,646 7,49^ Totals 377,614 141,499 236,115 46 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. The votino;- in the city was as follows— Yes. No. City SuburbsCountry 11,019 ,926 10,546 ,958 Totals 107,420 82,741 Taken by electorates, the vote shows 79 electoratesfor the Bill, and 46 against—or a majority of ^t, HON. R. E. O CONNOR, The entire result of the referendum was a credit to thecommonsense of Australia. It is the first time since theworld began that a nation has had the sense to frame itsown Constitution and make a beginning for itself in atime of peace. There were no loaded cannons at thepolls. There was no enemy at our gates. There wereno terrible questions oppressing us ; but, coolly and FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 47 deliberately, our people said We will federate, andthey did. It took years of labour and of patience. Some,like Sir Henry Parkes, passed over the dark river whilethe fight was in process, but many of the heroes are withus yet. And the grandest thing of all about it is, thatthe men who lost the day accepted the verdict. Therewere over 161,000 votes against the Bill ; but as soon asthe smoke had cleared away and the din had subsided,
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