POSITION IN CANADA

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7915, 26 September 1911, Page 5

POSITION IN CANADA

MR. BORDEN’S DECLARATION THE CONSERVATIVES’ OBJECT. SIR WILFRID LAURIER WILL NOT QUIT POLITICS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. OTTAWA, September 24. Mr R, L. Borden, leader of tho Opposition, who has been asked to form a Ministry, states that thirty years hence tho people of Canada will look back to this election as tho turningpoint in their destiny. The Conservatives would endeavour to build up Canada as an autonomous nation within the Empire.

It is expected that the deferred elections will result in further defeats of tho Liberals. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has revised his decision to retire from politics. He has announced that he will remain with his party for some time. lie is now making preparations to quit office immediately.

Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P., interviewed at Vancouver, congratulated Canadians on the results of the elections.

IN UNITED STATES PRESIDENT TAFT’S OPINION. NEW. YORK, September 24. President Taft, in a speech at St. Louis, said he was content to abide by the result of tho Canadian elections. Ho regretted the failure to pass Reciprocity, but ho had been long enough on the Bench to know when a final decision bad been given. Mr McColl, tho United States Congressman who introduced tho original Reciprocity Bill, declares-tbat a puerile annexation bogey led Canada to reject as golden an opportunity as she was likely ever to have. Tho Chicago wheat market has completely recovered its stability, which was affectet! by the defeat of reciprocity.