MB.ASQUITH AND THE COLONIES.
Press AisociitioD.-filectric Telegrapt-Couirlrtt, London, October 14. , In the course of a speech at Wormit, ia Fifeshire, the Right Hon. Mr. Asquith, who was Home Secretary in the lad Liberal Administration, dwelt upon the advantages of the looseness and elasticity of the ties between the coloniet and the mother land. To enter upoa an Imperial Constitution on the basil of proper safeguards would be, he said, to gravely imperil the present security of the empire, and the granting of preferential duties in favour of to* colonies would, in his opinion, prof* the first step towards the destruction of the British colonial trade.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10575, 16 October 1897, Page 5
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