| Description | Correspondence with Col. Sir Gerard Smith [Governor, Western Australia, 1895-1900] and Lord Loch [Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch: Governor of Victoria, 1884-1889; Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner South Africa, 1889-1895]
Including /3-5 Letter from Gerard Smith relating to activities of 'Aborigine Protection Board', with memorandum providing details of sentences awarded to Aboriginal people who have been convicted, and draft reply letter from Joseph Chamberlain, Feb 1896; /12-14 Letter from Lord Loch relating to enclosed correspondence from Alfred Deakin [member of Federal Council, 1889, 1895, 1897, 1899] concerning 'Colonial Federation', with typescript letter from Deakin and letter from Lord Hopetoun [John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Marquess of Linlithglow: Paymaster-General, 1895-1898], Jan 1897; /16 Official publication, 'Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly appointed to consider the Draft of a Bill to Constitute the Commonwealth of Australia', Perth, 1899; /17 Press cuttings from 'The Western Australian' relating to Australian Commonwealth Bill, Feb 1900 |