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Cable Guarantee. K-w The Hon. Joseph Cook moved that the Conference resolve into Committee to further consider the question of tb.e International guarantee to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company The Hon. J A. Cockburn seconded. Carried. The Conference resolved into Committee accordingly After some time spent therein the Conference resumed; and On the Motion of the Hon. A. J Thynne, the Conference adjourned till 10 o'clock tomorrow. JOHN GAVAN DUFFY, President. Thos. C Just, Secretary

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL CHAMBER, HOBART THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1895. The Conference met at 10 a.m., when the under-mentioned gentlemen, representing the Colonies herein named, were present : — New South Wales: The Hon. Joseph Cook, M.P., Postmaster-General. S. H. Lambton, Esq., Deputy Postmaster-General. Victoria: The Hon. John Gavan Duffy, M.L.A., Postmaster-General. James Smibert, Esq., Deputy Postmaster-General. South Australia The Hon. J A. Cockburn, M.P., Minister of Education, &c. <fee. Sir Charles Todd, K.C.M.G., Postmaster-General. Queensland: The Hon A.J Thynne, MX. C, Postmaster-General. Jno. M'Donnell, Esq., Under Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department and Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs. Tasmania : Hon. P O Fysh, M.H.A., Treasurer and Postmaster-General. H. V Bayly, Esq., Secretary to the Post Office. Western Australia : Sir John Forrest, Premier New Zealand: Hon. P. 0 Fysh, M.H.A., Treasurer and Postmaster-General, Tasmania. William Gray, Esq., Secretary to the Post and Telegraph Department. Cable Guarantee. Committee on International Guarantee to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company The Committee resumed, without Motion made. After some time spent therein the Conference resumed ; and The Hon. President reported that the Committee had considered the subject, and adopted a Report, which would be submitted to the Conference to-morrow. Hon. Joseph Cook tabled Statistics of Electric Telegraphs New South Wales, and moved that it be printed Hon. J A. Cockburn seconded. Carried. Hon Joseph Cook moved—That the letter of Mr J G. Barrett, Secretary of the Trades and Labour Council, Melbourne, tabled by Hon. Mr Fysh, also the letter of Mr D Michie, Agent of the P k 0 Steam Navigation Company, and the Report of a deputation to the Postmaster-General of New South Wales from the Seamen's Union against the employment of coloured labour, also re a minimum rate of wage, tabled by himself on Saturday last, be printed. Hon. J A. Cockburn seconded the Motion, which was carried Hon. J A. Cockburn moved—That the Second Report of the Committee appointed at the Postal and Telegraphic Conference held at Hobart, 1892, for the purpose of drafting a code of Rules and Regulations for the erection and laying of Electric Light and Power Wires, be adopted by this Conference. Hon. Joseph Cook seconded the Motion, which was carried. Federal Mail Contract. Hon. Joseph Cook moved —That this Conference desires to express its disappointment at the reply of the London Post Office to the conditions laid down by the Colonies for an extension of the Federal Mail Contract, and while, under the circumstances, reluctantly agreeing to such extension, desires to emphasize the terms and conditions of the Wellington Conference. This Conference further desires to inform the London Office that no future contract will be acceptable to the Colonies which does not include them, together with the Resolution passed by this Conference relating to the employment of coloured labour.