AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.
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MELBOURNE, December 9. After a long stonewall, the Senate nnally passed , the Yass-Canberra site by 17 to 11. - .'••.•'
Ihe* President of tho Senate stated that negotiations were proceeding with Canada oh the question of;• preferential trade, but this was not the stage at which it was desirable to disclose the terms. :
In the Fecbral House the Minister in charge of the Defence Bill admitted the necossity of a general reorganisation of tho forces.
A return has been presented to the. Federal House, showing the value cf tho properties . transferred-from the States to "the Commonwealth under Federation at £9,648,000. '
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 5
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104AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 5
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