MR CHAMBERLAIN'S RETURN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12618, 23 March 1903, Page 5

MR CHAMBERLAIN'S RETURN

ENTERTAINED AT TB[E OfUILD- ! ' . HALL...' THE BLENDING OF THE RACES. THE COLONIES AND DIPEP.IAL. RESPONSIBILITY. .. Press Association—By Selograph—Copyright. LONDON, March.2l. (Received Mar-ch 82, at 4.60 p.m.) Mr Chamberlain was tho guest of the London Corporation at the Guildhall. Hβ received a friendly'.ovation from Ministers, Agents-general,. ■ and . many leading notabilities. Responding to the corporation's address, he repented the predictions be had made at.his.previous visit to the Guildhall. He said; that the contest, between progressive and retrograde civilisation had ■ beeii finally decided, and the field .was clear, for the working of natural forces .tending to unite kindred races. It was not for supremacy we contended, but for that political equality which, wo, are now as ready to conoede as , we were, formerly eager to gain. He urged for continuity in the national policy of' firmness and sympathy. Responding to the toast of , his health proposed at a luncheon given Subsequently in his' honour at the!' Mansion House, Mr Chamberlain said that the new conception of Empire as-a voluntary organisation based oh'a'community of interests and sacrifices miisfc be infused into the colonies. gospel must be preached in colonial pulpits, Worse employment might be found , for Secretaries of State than'that "of'.'tramping the globe preaching the doctrine of'the Empire's Imperial mission. The Right Hou. A. J. Balfoiir (Prime Minister) said that tho South" African tour had been Mr Chamberlain's own conception, and he justly deserved the blessing of a pronounced peacemaker. •