One of the most edifying debates that have yet taken place in the convention turned on a sub-clause in the Draft Bill, in which it was proposed to give the Federal Parliament "the control and regulation ...
Article : 179 wordsHe did not make any secret of his intention, which, plainly stated, was to prevent New South Wales from interfering with the navigation of those rivers by carrying out the large irrigation works it has long ...
Article : 281 wordsUnder the presidency of the Hon. W. J. Lyne, president of the National Protection Union, and leader of the protectionist party in Parliament, the conference of protection delegates resumed ...
Article : 1,793 wordsIt is estimated that the revenue to be derived from the proposed works, in the shape of pumping licences at 5s per acre, and other sources, would yield a fair direct return on the necessary outlay, after payment ...
Article : 231 wordsMr. Hogue, M.L.A., addressed his constituents on the political situation in the Glebe Town Hall last evening. The Mayor of the Glebe, Alderman William Cary, J.P., presided. ...
Article : 795 wordsThe South Australian claim to restrict the diversion of the water for irrigation purposes by another colony is based en doctrines of the old English law of "riparian rights," which does not permit an owner ...
Article : 152 wordsEvery line in this passage may be said to apply as closely to New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia at the present moment as they did to the particular states which the writer had in view. They had ...
Article : 377 wordsSeeing no chance of that view being adopted, his colleague (Sir John Downer) moved an amendment limiting the control to "rivers running through, or on the boundaries of, two or more states, so far as it is ...
Article : 246 wordsThe winter season opened brilliantly last the night in the Town Hall with the annual ball in aid of St. Vincent's Hospital. This yearly event, which is looked forward to with interest by the public ...
Article : 915 wordsPerhaps he may find himself not so badly treated after all, when he comes to look a little more closely into the terms of the present Draft Bill. The subclause enabling the Federal Parliament to ...
Article : 189 wordsBut simple as this proposition is, Mr. Carruthers, for one, does not seem to see it. "The moment we hand ever the control of the rivers to the Federal Parliament" he is reported to have said," we shall ...
Article : 355 words"But if Congress have passed no general or special act on the subject, the invalidity of such a State Act must be placed entirely on its repugnan[?], to the power to regulate commerce in its [?]mant state. ...
Article : 167 wordsA committee meeting was held yesterday afternoon at the Town Hall, and, in the absence of the Major, the Hon. J. F. Boras took the chair. There were about twenty-five gentlemen present ...
Article : 229 wordsApplying this interpretation of the clause to the facts before us, it may be inferred that if the Federal Parliament, acting in the interests of commerce, should prohibit any diversion of the waters of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 414 wordsAt the Royal Commission on the city railway extension yesterday a report was read dealing with the financial aspects of the Railway Commissioners' scheme. Under this schema the ...
Article : 109 wordsAUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.—The examination of the effects of Mr. Rose, the commercial traveller who was drowned in the Hawke's Bay 'floods, has revealed that his address was John ...
Article : 54 wordsA woman named Georgina 'Bryant, 28, was admitted to Sydney Hospital last night suffering from the effects of poisoning by carbolic acid. The woman was found in a hotel in Pitt-street by ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Thu 22 Apr 1897, Page 3
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