THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE.
The Times says that the Government deliberately ignored the Colonial Conference, involving the most vital interests ot the Empire. Such contemptuous indifference was strange on the pait ot those affecting to believe that sentiment was the ouly possible bond of Imperial unity. Sir H. CdinpbeU-Bcinnerman ought to be awaie that the 1897 Conference was not piearranged when Pailiament was not sitting. It only arose incidentally out of the presence of the colonial Premieis at the Diamond Jubilee c-elebiations ; whilst Mr Chamberlain only suggested the 1902 Conference the week alter Parliament had assembled. The King's prorogation Speech, however, in that year adequately lecognised its Imperial significance. j i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 19
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110THE COLONIAL CONFERENCE. Otago Witness, Issue 2762, 20 February 1907, Page 19
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