From Our Special Correspondent: Alfred Deakin’s letters to the London Morning Post

On the last day and in the last hours of the session, without any debate worthy of the occasion, he persuaded both branches of our Legislature to adopt resolutions protesting against the treatment accorded to New South Wales by the Commonwealth upon “many matters”, but especially with reference to the choice of a site for the future seat of Federal Government. [...] The fears of one and hopes of the other are both testimonies to the substantial character of the agitation about to be commenced in earnest from the public platform. [...] The ground for this demand is that our people were led to suppose that this would be the choice of the Federal Parliament, and that a phrase used by the Conference of Premiers which amended the provision of the draft Constitution relating to the capital proved that this was the intention of the section which they prepared and the final referendum approved. [...] Reviews of the returns for 1905 in particular branches of business in the several States are still coming in to complete our summaries of the business of the year. [...] upon the capital invested in them, without reckoning the inestimable services they have rendered in making the vast plains of the interior accessible to the squatter and the miner.