THE IMPERIAL CABINET.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8290, 19 September 1903, Page 3

THE IMPERIAL CABINET.

gtECißic Telegraph.—" Coptbiget.] London, September 18. _ ■tviilT Telegraph stales that there is f** in official circles that Mr Auswill succeed Mr Ritchie as ttH nf the Exchequer, Mr Brodenck Hamilton as Secret lfi<& Mr Arnold Forster Mr Brodfor War. Lord Milner ii& as a possible successor of Mr s as Secretary for the Colonies.. adds that the correspondence Tfe 1 ,: = tl> the honor of «e country. It contain a note of self-seeking or says that Mr Chamberlain \Vaterloo. It adds that an apt"B. m the coantry cannot be delayed. September 19, at 8.4- Ba.m. London, September 18. .. chamberlain's courage and patriotism «*rallv recognised. It is rumored that . ne yearS P lo^ a Gazette denounces the rehV«i of Lord Lansdowne m the Ministry -h* Greatest Colonial Minister leaves SL' his colleagues are too weak, and rdenv support to a man whose work T eJ l made the Cabinet's history.. "r&eFinancial News declares that the loss Z Colonial Office is incalculable and ir--41 thU Air Chamberlain was indispensno other Minister was, but he has sacrifice to a lost cause, and his defile triumph will also be tnat of the Em-

*Sv Canadian Press deplore Mr Chamber,V, retirement, and regret the intense SLv to his preferential ideals _ Manufacturers' Association todiJlr Chamberlain urging a vigorous iSSaution of the campaign to adapt Bn- * to existing conditions. °Th» French Press consider it unlikely that , Bjfour Government wiu survive, and anMr Chamberlain's return at the head iTllinistry. „ LtivTd September 19, at 10.10 a.m Svdrtev, September 19. Tfe Herald says -. "The prospects before the rnJTge rvative Government wnich directly fathe establishment of a preferential which not asked for by the and which has never been discussed a/within the range of practical poli- £ w-sre- causing the disruption of the ®' n^6 st Cabinet, in command of the largest -fontv that has been known in British Mies' It would have imperilled the °ln&t Leasue with the Conservatives and Lwlaced s n C h a condition of party poUwas without parallel since the party JLn became practically a part of the CongS>a of the United Kingdom In the Instances the conclusion arrived at bj even though 1* involved the reLtion of Mr Chamberlain » to be wdSml as the wisest course that could be Lout present. Mr Chamberlain aa a man ■f treat intellectual force and notable dog--fcess of purpcse, may pepuade the people preferential tariffs lies the safety o* She; but of this we are sure that in 2S- he has done him»3f and his cause E: He may be able in a-new and comL&I edition of the Midlounan campaign, Lose the electors to a sense of the lmpor.ace of his views to the Empire. ' Xhe Daily Telegraph says Although UrCbamherlain has rendered, service as Coyjl Secretary which has been heartily Swledged, his retirement in the circumjjucej is about the best thing politically jut could have happened to the Empire, ajg an admission from the high priest oi -ferential trade that the people will have Ijj of his cread, and therefore the sign is that fur the present at least there is no «ance of success for the strangely-mistaken p «t of linking up the various parts of Empire by the tariff chain, which, if it j® forced round various countries, would ail them until they burs- it, and psrhape fapire. into what he himself would call pes and separate atoms Mr Chamberfcju scheme for creating frateraalism, bent provoking conflicts amongst Ministers mi in the House, has aroused resentment in Citaii. and nerved Mr Seddon, who has Htrto posed as the chiefest Empire layolis, to threaten to enter into closer comBital relations with foreign nations unless 4} British consented to give a cash preferjctoXew Zealand meat. Although preface fas been banished from the Governast pro'irainine as admittedly of no go, reiinoE is apparently to be persevered with, Difot the situation still bristles with maml of colonial interest." There is some sttlation, however, in the knowledge that i'sisbactered Oovemment which survives Is seek of public disapprobation. At the jkAction its defeat may be expected, and &ie result of the fhral laying of feson bogey which has walked so briefly dsn miserably failed to scare British (H6e out of their sanity." tow! September 19, at 10.50 a.m. (Sydney, September 19. SrE. Barton 6ays that as soon as he heard oils resicnation he cabled to Mr Chair-her-k6i:—"Your great policy commands the apwit of Australia. We know you y;*! jK&vere.** Sir E. Barton, after paying iMgli tribute to Mr Chamberlain and referis to the attitude of the 'Federal Governess in resiard to preferential trade in the ijitof che resignation, said : "What lias wired win not in any way alter the policy sr the or.j* of the Government. lam contha; xhe policy enunciated by Mr Gambertira will win. I think with Mr Qumberfain that until the responsibilities cf the Empire are recognised, as well by Cnfed Kingdom as by the colonies, the®oi of the Empire will not take place. But JUrChamberlain's policy is in whole adoptd instead of in part only, there will be a Bliaaunn of it in the not distant future, lam quite, that those who know him. & liitfv resolves, tenacity of purpose, will kfr the trreatest confidence that he has the rL'ht step for the confiummation of 4b eihegion we wish for. 7 * it Reid received the news while addressijiineetinp. In the course'of bis speech if aid that in an unhappy moment Mr CiffinbexLiia missed the sublime confidence tejetirilitvand permanence of the British a\\ It vtjs a melancholy declension, TOch wa<« calculated to work enormous jjseiy ac<i in the Empire. WTiile Huia t-rlinsi of the greatest respect for ® Chamberiatn. Ft was with a feeling of iponal thankfulness that he learnt that jfjttw.ile in Eneland and in the British yKnet. upon which the destinies of the tiipire itmbled. had been ended by Mr "MhoriainV restgniition.