Homo and Foreign.

Inangahua Times, 29 March 1909, Page 4

Homo and Foreign.

CABLES.

THE NftVflL SITUftTIOH.

(By Electric Telegraph.) iVr Fress Association.—l ow.nutH Rec M.rch 29 at 8,25 a.m London, March 29 Runciman at Colchester denonnced the artificially imfhmed scare. He declared the British navy was impregnable and no Germ m Dreadnough s were yet afloat, Get nnny had only two filths ol our number, avaikb'e lor sai'ors. The Government's motto in naval affairs was a Salety without <l superfluity." Colonel Seely, speaking at Hucknall.Torhard, said that New Zealand's splendid generosity is unpiralled in the history ol the Australasian btates, and the other colonies were following the Dominion's example, thus showing eagerness to assist the Motherland il necessary, ■ITHE VOTE OF CENSURE. The Hon A. Balfour, in a letter expl tins that a \ote of censure is the only course open, as by the rules of debate it is only possible to move for a reduction of the Estimates. NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER. \ iLondon, March 27 Sir Gilbert Paiker of Muswell Hill said that the Government's reply to New Zealand's off r is either a wilful misconception or blind inapprec'a - ion of its betiefitSj especially of the m-ignifice'iiit'.',•'. deirrohatraiton of 11 e ; growing sense 61 the colonies of their moial obtiga ion to share the responsibilities Of Empire. The reply contained the same elements ol quibble that the Government showed in relation 1 to the lour Dreadnoughts.