A telegram from Sidney in Thursday's Times announces that the
Legislative Assembly of New South Wales adopted on Wednesday a series of resolutions in favour of Australasian. Federation. They approved the main principles of the draft Bill prepared by the Convention of 1891, proposed that the Bill should be considered in Committee and then remitted to the consideration of a second Convention, and declared that the question of the adoption of the final Bill should be "sub- mitted to the people" of each Colony " in their electoral caps- city,"—by which we presume is meant a referendum on the Bill en bloc. It is noteworthy that a motion supported by the entire Labour party declaring :—" That no system of Federation will be acceptable to this House until the electoral system provides for the principle of 'one man, one vote,' at the election for members to the proposed House of Represen- tatives," was lost by seven votes. The defeat of this motion, which would have looked like an attempt to dictate to the other Colonies, is a good. sign, and. shows that in Sidney, at any rate, they are earnest for the Commonwealth. With a little luck, it is by no means impossible that 1895 may see a federated A n stralia.
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