ENGLAND'S DUTY

Evening Star, Issue 14229, 1 December 1909, Page 8

ENGLAND'S DUTY

MUST SEND HER'SURPLUS OVERSEAS. . . ■ • •"•'.. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, Nov6mber 30. (Received December 1, at 8.5 a.m.) lx>rd Northcote (ex-Govc-rnor-General of Australia), speaking at the Devonian dinner, said that both parties were firmly determined to draw into closer bond the union between Great Britain and her overseas' possessions. The-• Colonial • Office must rigidly and sedulously abstain from any-, thing in the nature of interference. England was overcrowded, and it was the duty of future statesmen to direct her overflow population towards the great fertile spaces of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, which were awaiting development. The increasing greatness or decline of the Iftnpire might depend upon the class of people by whom the Dominions wero peopled. COLONIAL) LOYALTY. LONDON, November 50. (Received December 1. at 8.5 a.m.) Colonel Seely (Under-Secretary. for the Colonies), presiding- at a complimentary banquet to Sir AV. J. Taverner, AgentGeneral fop Victoria, declared that all of them in the Colonial Office recognised the great services to the Empire rendered by the representatives of the colonies. Sir W. Taverner referred to the good effects of Sir Charles Lucas's recent visit to Australasia, to the recent Imperial Conferences here, and to the Empire Chambers of Commerce Congress in Sydney. Lord Kanfurly. replying to the toast/.of Umpire, said that in all the colonies the people were even more loyal to the Crown than the dwellers in the Motherland. He instanced New Zealand leading the way with a Dreadnought, and other States who were doing all in their power to increase the Navv.