COUNCIL OF EMPIRE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10779, 30 May 1911, Page 4

COUNCIL OF EMPIRE.

A HOSTILE CRITIC. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Pe» Press Received May 30, at 10.20 a.m. Sydney, 'May .30. •■ The Telegraph, referring to Sir J.--G. Ward's National,-Council schejney states that from the Mother Country to South Africa, the youngest federation, all are unfavorable with a single exception, which merely indicates that New Zealand misunderstood her isolation if not her importance in the counsels of the Empire. •

OUR LOYALTY TO THEEMPIRE. Reseived May 29, at 2.25 p.m. • • London, Mpy;2B; Dr Findlny, speaking at Wheatfields Tabernacle,- said ■ Newj :Zealander,s, were ready to a miiii to make sacrifices for the-Empire, and the growing sense of Imperialism was even keener than in Britain. New Zealanders were prepared to./work to. this. «jiid,. ; and were looking forward to the dsiy when'great statesmen would take the .elements of the federation and mould- -them 'into something like an original whole. What was happening at the Imperial Conference showed that New Zealand was anxious to make sacrifices for a closer union. -~i->-- -■■-•-