IMPERIAL CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10241, 2 September 1909, Page 4

IMPERIAL CABLES.

CORPORATIONS IMPERIAL PROSPECTS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press Association.)

Received September 1, at 10.10. p.m. London, September 1. The Times' Toronto correspondent writing on the 23rd, states that the Ottawa Journal, one of the most sober and responsible of newspapers, alleges that through the pressure of corporate influence and speculative dealing in cable stock by persons close to the Administration, Ministers have determined to ignore the projected conference in London, and to refuse their support to the movement for a system of public cables around the Empire. I t The correspondent remarks that this, if true, must prove a-fatal blow to the whole great project. There is reason to think, he s&ys, that the Government has no natural sympathy to aid the movement to establish public cables in competition with private systems, for it overruled Sir W. Mulock's policy of purchase. He adds: "Sir W. Laurier at best is a passive Imperialist, and believes the only safe bond of Empire is sentiment. He distrusts all schemes for organic unity, and probably believes, with naval defence on the anvil, that Imperial cables can wait."