ROYAL GUESTS.
AN IMPERIALISTIC DBJSAM. A FEDERATED EMPIRE, (PreßS Ajssociation.- -By Telegraph.— Copyright). Londou, Yesterday. The colonfal .delegate's aire now guests of the Sovereign. They will be attended by fooifcracn and use Royal carriages. Tlkire we fiftyeight countries represented at the Coronation, the majority by special envoys. Out of eighty of the chief foreign delegations fifty belong to Royal houses. Lords and Commonetra welcomed at ia hnicheon 54 Oversea Parlia-meiutairiaiis. Sir W. Lauirier Mir A. Fisher, and Sir Joseph Wart): too present. Lord 1 Roseitery, presiding, proposed "Our Guests." Ho referred to the "unique gathering of Pairiiaments or tlio Empire, conw to do homage ®t the source of all! Parliaments in tiio historic hall. On such am inspiring occasion it was lawful to dream dreams. Did they not see in the Imperial Conference the germ of a mightier council, representing the aspirations for a united Empire in ai defined/ permanent form, -becoming the most august Parliament the world liadi ever soieai, while not infringing in the slightest on the domestic affairs of each other?" He did not be'lievo the realisation of the dream was remote. "The cause is marching with great strides. Some day Wie wiil wake and find ourselves for Imperial purposes a federated Empire."
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1348, 21 June 1911, Page 5
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