COLONIAL MATTERS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 252, 26 January 1889, Page 2

COLONIAL MATTERS.

WHAT NORMAN AND CHAMBERLAIN HAVE TO SAY. LOND ONSLOW'S FAREWELL. London, Jan. 24. At a farewell Masonic banquet tendered to Earl Onslow, the guest, responding to the toast of his health, said he was going to a young but greaj and prosperous country, which, notwithstanding diverse conflicting elements, was loyal to the backbone, a country which honored Masonry but abhorred the great principle of Freetrada and was even more democratic than England.

Sir Henry W. Norman, Governor elect of Queensland, has arrived from Jamaica. In the course of an interview he expressed himself hopeful of the success of his career in Queensland, and confident his relations with tho people would only be of the most cordial nature. He favors a policy of self rule, holding that nationalism and loyalty are synonymous terms. He said further that ha was proud to be permitted ta assist in developing the future of one of the youngest and greatest offshoots of the Mother country. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, referred, to the Spirit of disintegration which was manifesting itself in the colonies and India, and advocated the establishing of a free school, He quoted the success which had followed the erections of systems of tres educaticn iu Australia and New Zealand,