. 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. m > t> !i;JSA:».s^. THE well-known S3dney house of Messrs. J. Barre Johnston & Co. has beenestablished close upon a quarter of a century, and its business ramifications, inaddition to covering the whole of Australasia, also include neai-ly every othercountry of the world, for, as large exporters and importers, the operations of thefirm, for many
. 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. m > t> !i;JSA:».s^. THE well-known S3dney house of Messrs. J. Barre Johnston & Co. has beenestablished close upon a quarter of a century, and its business ramifications, inaddition to covering the whole of Australasia, also include neai-ly every othercountry of the world, for, as large exporters and importers, the operations of thefirm, for many yeai-s past, have extended over a wide area, and done much todevelop our over-sea LORD HOPETOUN,FIRST GOVERXOR-GEXERAL OF UXITED AUSTRALIA. 18 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. the Dominion Government. The State»Governor repre-sents the Governor-General, and is paid by the DominionGovernment, and he can veto the acts of the localParliament. That is : the Dominion Government holdsthe same relation to the provinces that the EnglishGovernment held towards Canada. It might be well tosay holds towards Canada, but the Imperial Govern-ment allows the self-governing Colonies such a largemeasure of liberty that the Dominion appears to desireto hold her provinces more tightly. The Canadians haveleft themselves no power to amend their own Constitu-tion, but have to apply to the Imperial Parliament forleave to do so. We are coming into the field at a laterhour, under far more favourable conditions, and we havelearned by the experience of others, and so have made•our Constitution more elastic. In the making of Con-stitutiorfs there is very little need for experiment or fororigina
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