AN INSPIRING OCCASION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 141, 20 June 1911, Page 8

AN INSPIRING OCCASION.

\ (Received June.% ll:3s!*.m.)' * ' j' '- • '' 3sNriON.Ael9. Tha.^Houses of' Lords .and Commbns entercaifl.ed at a luncheon ss' Ovetseas P.arliamlentiaria.rist ' ' • Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr Fisher 'and Sir Joseph Ward were present. Lord Rosebery, who presided, proposel "-The Guests." He referred to the unique^ gathering of the Parliaments of the Empire who had come to do homage at ihe source of all Parliaments in the historic hall. On suc£ an inspiring occasion. M, 'was< lawful "to dream dream*. - Did they not ;«ee in i>he Imperial Conference th© germ of i a mightier Council, repreSexiting as- ' .pirations for' a-"United Empire in, & «3efined'and permanent toiroi, becoming th"c most'august Parliament the world ever, had seen, while not infringing in. the slightest on; iie dpme»*tic affairs of each other ? He did riot believe that the realisation of th» dream, was remote. "The' canieV ifF marching with giant strides ii^nd sbme 4oy we wUI wake and find"'ourselves for Imperial purposes a Federated Ijßmpire." t