. 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. and there was trouble allround. Then came the famous Melbourne Conferenceof February 6, 1890, at which the seven Colonies wererepresented by the following gentlemen, selected bytheir respective Governments :— N. S. Wales, Sir Henry Parkes (Premier) and Mr.(afterwards Sir) William McMillan (Colonial Treasurer) ;Victoria Mr. Duncan Gillies (Premier) and Mr. Alfr
. 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. and there was trouble allround. Then came the famous Melbourne Conferenceof February 6, 1890, at which the seven Colonies wererepresented by the following gentlemen, selected bytheir respective Governments :— N. S. Wales, Sir Henry Parkes (Premier) and Mr.(afterwards Sir) William McMillan (Colonial Treasurer) ;Victoria Mr. Duncan Gillies (Premier) and Mr. AlfredDeakii) (Chief Secretary) ; Queensland, Sir vSamuel Wal-ker Griffith (Leader of Opposition) and Mr. John MurtaghMacrossan (Colonial Secretary) ; South Australia, Dr. 28 FROM COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. (afterwards Sir) John Alexander Cockburn (Premier) andMr. Thomas Playford (Leader of the Opposition) ;Tasmania, Mr. Andrew Ino-Hs Clark (Attorney-General)and Mr. Bolton Stafford Bird (Treasurer) ; WesternAustralia, Sir James George Lee Steere (Speaker) ; NewZealand, Captain William Russell Russell (ColonialSecretary) and Sir John Hall. Mr. Geo. H. Jenkins,, Clerk of the Parliament (Victoria), acted asclerk of the HIS HONOR SIR FREDERICK MATTHEW DARLEY, , ,LIEUT-GOVERNOR, NEW SOlTH WALES. ^^olfHere the question took form and shape, and SirHenry Parkes proposed that the several Governmentsshould send deleo;ates to a Convention to discuss thequestion of federation and report upon a scheme for aConstitution. That Conference dissolved hopefully andthe matter had entered on a new phase. In the NewSouth Wales Parliament the opposition was long andbitter. Mr. J. H. Want opposed the whole scheme as a FROISI COLONY TO COMMONWEALTH. 20 fashionable fad, and others opposed it on side issues; butthe resolution to send delegates was carried on Septem-ber loth. There was more or less delay in the othercolonies, but on March 2nd, 1891, the Convention met inSvdney. T
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