THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 10273, 15 February 1894, Page 5

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

FSpecial to Press Association.! ENGLAND AND THE COLONIES. LONDON, Feb. 14. In the course of a lecture at the Colonial Institute on the British Empire, General Ohesney advocated the formation of a Council of the Empire, consisting of the Prime Minister, some members of the Imperial Cabinet and the Premiers of the great colonial dominions, together with some pf their colleagues, to deal with imperial and colonial affairs, thus securing a harmonious policy and superseding the Colonial Office. Mr Reid, of Victoria, who referred to General Chesney’s remarks, declared that the safeguard of the Empire lay in kindred interest, sympathy and blood relations. The colonies, he said, were convinced that their interests and those of England were similar, and that it would he impossible for them to exist without. The task of safeguarding the Empire in the future was stupendous, as the old legislative machinery of England was unsuited to new countries. The duties of England and the colonies, he thought, were to bind together and to command the seas.

Several speakers eulogised the Australian auxiliary squadron.