GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIA 'AND^THE MPIBE.

[PBESS A3BOOIATIOK.I LONDON, April 4. At a banquet to Lord Dudley, Australia's . new Governor-General, and Lord Jersey, ex-Governor ,pf , New South Wales,. Mr Tom Price,,, Premier of Soutb Australia; said that Englishmen should cultivate 'the 'feeling of sentiment, te-i wards the' colonies. • If sentiment' Were allowed to die, the ties .binding the Empire would fall. asunder. South Australia, her, said, tried to ; -work in, harmony with the JFederal Government. All the talk about separation he characterised as only humbug. > There was no party in Australia that. w™ld talk of repudiation or disloyalty to _the Empire, to which all 'were 'proua J to be^ long. L ■ - '' ' " ' " ' :': ' ■ Two hundred - !i attended the subsequent reception.