IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 4697, 19 November 1889, Page 2

IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

|Pr.n KiKcTittc! Telkou4pii — Uni'vaujni) (I'll; I'jiks.s Axso'.iation). (H-jcoived 10.10 p.m., Nov. lStli.) I^ondon. Nov. 17. Lord Kesebery, speaking at tliu Mansion Huubo yesterday, said that great sympathy was shown by tlio Auslraliaua with tho d»cfc (strikers. Taken with tho Soudau incklunt il showed that there was a healthy tone in tho colouku in tho direction of tho unity of tho l!riti.-h empire. The existence of tho Federal movement now innuguratcd In Australia dcpotided upon tho periodical renewal of the conferenco of tho colonial delegates in London. At such conferences, L->rd Hosubery said, such questions aa defence, tho postal and telegraph nyatema might properly bo coneidorcd. Lord Carnarvon on the samo occasion expressed a hope that the larger question of federation of tho empire would bo suhinitlcd f.>r cnnsideratKM! nt next cnloni.il confcrciic?. Tlio jfVmr.i in tho emirao of an article on Federation eays thnt tho promoter.! aro forciny Ihu paco but at present there is littln ground for practical agitation and it will lio necessary to await tho result of Australian Federation before it is either prudent or profitable to move further iu tho direction of Impcrinl Federation, Tho mttiitdiii-it rcffrrini; to tlio proposal for holding another colonial cjuferenco in London expresses tho opinion that there In nothing at present to demand tho assemblage of colonial delegates. (SI'IXIAI. TO TUB I'UESS ASSOCIATiOU.) (Kocoivcd S.IO p.m. Nov. IStU.I Losnof, Nov. 11. At a mucting at Guildhall in support of tho City of London branch of tho Federation Lengup, Lird Knsebery said that it <tai abiurd to su.,'!»o.it inlroduciug coloiiiiitß to Boots in tho Houso of Lords, Commons, or Privy Council. Ho further expressed tho opinion that it would be impojaiblo iu any federation scheme to include nil tho federating Statea or colonies under ono zollocrino. Cardinal Manning rc-iorring to tho proposal to hold another conference of colonial delegate*, rnlo-ised the personnel of tho lirnt conference. Tho press generally oro favourable to tho proposal for auothor conference.