Excerpt from From Colony to Commonwealth, Being a Brief History of Federation: Together With a Record of the Festivities and Ceremonies Which Took Place in the City of Sydney on the Occasion of the Proclamation of the Commonwealth in January, 1901 IT is fitting that more than passing note should be taken of the great events which have been transpiring in Australia during this history-making epoch. We have given in the pages of this small volume a brief history of the Federal movement, and a somewhat elaborate description of the final ceremony which took place on the first day of January of this year, when the Federation of the six colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and Tasmania, under the title of the Commonwealth of Australia, became. 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.