Lord Carrington on Federation.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 121, 20 November 1888, Page 2

Lord Carrington on Federation.

[By Tklxobaph.] {Our Own Correspondent.) [per b.B. tabawera, at the bluff.] Mxlboubnk, 13th November. Speaking at the Mayor's inaugural dinner in Melbourne, on the 10th instant, Lord Carrington, alluding to the great advantages whioh the colonies derive from their oonneotion with the Mother Country, declared that the reason why Australia was able to pursue a well-defined policy in the Western Paoifio was that all the world knew that the British Government would no more allow its interference with Melbourne or Sydney than Liverpool, Glasgow, or Dublin. The great danger ahead, Lord Carrington fears, is the possibility of a division among the oolonies, whioh may induce one of them while they are separate to try to " out the painter," but he expressed a confident belief that the great national party, to whioh every true Australian should belong heart and soul, would help Great Britain to federate the AngloSaxon race into a nation whioh should exceed the wildest dreams of the greatest oonqneror the world had ever seen. Sir W. C. F. Robinson believed that intercolonial federation would soon beoome an accomplished fact, but regarded Imperial federation as outside the range of practical policy.