COLONIALS AT HOME.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 15 June 1911, Page 1

COLONIALS AT HOME.

WARD’S IMPERIAL COUNCIL SCHEME. ADDRESS AT GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. [WUBB ABSOCLATIOW.—COFYBIGHT]. (Received 15, 9.25 a.m.) London, June 14. Lord Seibourne presided at Sir J. Ward’s address at the Royal Geological Institute, on “Higher and Truer Imperialism.” Sir J. Ward made an urgent plea for an Imperial council. “Someday,” he said, “it would be impossible for Britain alone to maintain her majestic supremacy of the seas. The Dominions would be equally unable wholly to defend themselves from foreign aggression.” Lord Seibourne said we must be prepared to see the centre of gravity of the Empire pass from the United Kingdom to some other part of the Empire, while Englishmen felt less free to discuss the problem of Federation when the Dominions’ statesmen presented a prepared scheme. Many Britishers were prepared to give their political lives to the support of it.

HIS MOTHER’S BIRTHPLACE. (Received Ift, 10.1 ft a.m.) London, June 14. Mr. McGowan, on receiving an invitation to address the Oldham Road Methodist Brotherhood (Manchester), remarked that if Manchester wished it, some Sunday he must do it for his mother’s sake, as CONFERRING THE DOCTORATE OF LAWS. J FISHER GENTLY REBUKED. i —— (Received 15, 10.5 a.m.) | London, June 14. j The Public Orator at Cambridge 1 University in a laudatory Latin speech, conferring the Doctorate of Laws on Sir J. Ward, Gen. Botha, and Mr. Morris, mentioned it had been intended to confer degrees on others who were absent, including Lord Grey, who is in Canada, and Lord Rothschild, who was ill, while Mr. Fisher had declined the honour, which the University desired* to pay to Australia no less than to himself. BRITISH POLICY—A STRONG NAVY. The ‘Westminster Gazette” states that the one decisive answer of Sir J. Ward showed he feared disintegration. unless closer unity in the governing institutions was effected. As long as Britain was [ strong enough at sea to prevent any ! attack on the dominions, none such < questions would arise and therefore the question of the navy from alpha to omega was the British policy.