Passage of the Commonwealth Bill is at resent ab a deadlock in the Imperial "unlinment, the stumbling block being the clause providing for a High Court of Appeal in Australia, In the interests of prompt and economical justice such a Court is urgently needed, seeing that appeals decided ina Court, situated 12,000 miles away, must always prove a costly and tedious process. Tt is unfortunate that such a deadlock should have occurred just now, when the feeling between the colonies and the mother country is of the warmest description, the fostering of which would he of material benefit to both countries,
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