DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6326, 28 September 1907, Page 7

DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND.

LONDON OFFICE MAKES HOLIDAY.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 27, 10.55 p-m.) LONDON, September 27.

The office of the New Zealand High Oommiesicmer, Hon. W. P. Beeves, was closed on Dominion Day, and the staff was given a holiday. SYDNEY PEESS COMMENT. SYDNEY, September 27. The “Herald,” referring to Dominion Day, says:—“ln one respect the new departure must be recognised as significant. Does it put the finishing touch to the possibility of New Zealand some day throwing in her lot with Australia and uniting l with us in one Australasian Commonwealth? It must be confessed that that was a prospect that had been deareasing steadily with the flight of years. It is extremely improbable that anything can happen to make the new Dominion give up its just acquired glory. In any case, New Zealand appreciates too highly the privilege and profit of taxing the products of this Commonwealth and selling its fodder in bad seasons to come in now and share the Federal burden.”

The "Daily Telegraph” says,:—“lf the terms count, we should say that ‘colony’ rings higher than any possible substitute, and cannot be paralleled as a recaller of our forefathers of Greater Britain and the great deeds they did. Names, however, are mere conveniences, and ‘Dominion’ is only important as marking the occasion of New Zealand’s recognised attainment to the position of an Empire State. In a double sense the passing of such a stage is a thing to be memorialised, for to the Empire it typifies the onward march of the Greater Britisher, and to the " colonist (and to Dominionist) it illustrates an Imperial concession of honours won. New Zealand has come of age, a fact upon which all her younger Australian sisters will sincerely felicitate her. In that transition she represents the fine flower of another generation’s plant, ing, done so bravely in the teeth of dangers as to constitute one of Britishers’ greater triumphs of expansion, and done not by dispossession, but by methods of acquisition which in square dealing with the native occupiers may challenge comparison in the history of the world.”

The Premier yesterday received the following cable from the Hon. P. Madden, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Victoria:—"Victoria’s hearty congratulations on New Zealand's promotion amongst the nations. Earnestly wish maintained wisdom and ever-increasing enterprise, pros* perlty. and dignity to our great sister." Mr A. de B. Brandon, deputy-chairman of the Wellington board of the A.M.P. Society. received the following cable message yesterday, dated 26th Inst., from the HonA. W. Meeks, chairman of the principal board in Sydney:—"Our congratulations on inception of Dominion of New Zealand, May she ever remain a bright particular star in the society’s constellation and emulate the splendid work done in the past.”