Sir Henry Parkes is making a strong bid for support
from the Labour Party, who hold the balance in the New South Wales Parliament which has just been elected. He proposes to extend the suffrage to new classes (especially women), to abolish altogether the property qualification of candidates, to divide the Colony into single electorates, and (as we under- stand the telegram) to vitiate an election in which a majority of the registered votes have not been polled. Further, he proposes to establish Courts of Conciliation in reference to labour disputes, to amend the mining laws in the interest of the miners, and to regulate factories on behalf of women and children. A vote of want of confidence has been moved on the Address, and we are told that the Labour Party mean to vote against it, but to keep quite independent of the Govern- ment, and to oppose Confederation.
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