The Queensland Labour Government, which has held office since 1915, must face the electors next year. During its term it has abolished the Legislative Council, in spite of a hostile decision from the electors on the subject,—it has amended pastoral leases so as to increase rents. (a thing which amounts to legal repudiation), and it has piled up mountains of debt with very little to! show for it. The percentage of_unemployed in that State has been greater than anywhere else in Australia, though-the Government has about £2,000,000 sunk in State enterprises which should be able to afford a considerable amount of employment. The Premier, Mr. Theodore, throughout the late Federal elections sought once more to placate the small farmers, who originally put his party into power, by assuring them that, if the Federal Government did not protect the small sugar-cane grower, from the avarice of the refiners and millers, his own government would commandeer the output of the mills and attend to the business. It was all in vain.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.