Excerpt from The Review of Reviews for Australasia, Vol. 31: July, 1907 His threats of secession, although unstatesmanlike, are put down to an effort to ad1ertise his State a very laudable intention all the same, though the effort is misdirected - but Australia is not going back on Federation, -and a referendum of New South Wales, such as Mr Carruthers speaks about in order to settle the much debated capital site, 11ould mean a referendum of the whole of the Australian people before it would have due weight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.