IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 272, 22 May 1907, Page 2

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

_ r : — A CANDID OPINION. f»v KMCOTBrO TELEGRAPH — GOPYBIOHT * [PBE PBESB ABBOOIATION.] (Received May 22nd, 7.35 a.m.) London, May 21. Mr Deakin, interviewed prior to his departure, stated that official resolutions unanimously passed by the Conference were- insufficient to call for congratulations. On several most important subjects the delegates not only failed to induce the acceptance of their proposals, but failed to even receive a definite approach toward them, though something more was done in nearly «very case than could have been accomplished by correspondence, but the indirect and unexpected results justified a very different tone. They constituted the total effect which he would not attempt at present to estimate. It was impossible at present to say what effect the Conference would produce upon Australia. Every such interchange of views tends to closer relations between the Motherland and the colonies. Whatever friction may have occurred during the visit was merely individual and transitory. The delegates separated cherishing the hope that the great ideals which inspired their gatherings would yet be crystallised at a future conference, which would be placed on a more permanent basis, and better equipped for wide responsibilities.