Austral asian

Federation has been * in the air’ ever since 185a, but the question Council—sanctioned became more or le acute in 1886, when a Federal by the Imperial Parliament—met at Hobart, including representatives of Fifi, Tasmania, Queensland. West Australia, and Victoria. In 1889 Sir Henry Parkes, premier of New South Wales, called a national convention to discu a scheme, and in the Austral asian motion was carried unanimously that Austral asian of Australia will shortly be an accomplished fact. plague to the country, are not indigenous, but the progeny of a single pair imported by a Melbourne squatter. In four years an average pair of rabbits can multiply into 1,250,000. In 1887 more than 25 million were killed in N.S. W. alone, after the Sydney Cabinet had spent.£700,000 in four years to mitigate the plague. More than 1200 miles of fence were put up to check them in various parts of the colony, but without real succe . The average number of rabbit skins — exported from the various colonies in a year is 3,000,000 from Victoria, the latter spending,£15.000