COLONIALS AT HOME

Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 29

COLONIALS AT HOME

LONDON, May 28. At Whitfield’s Tabernacle, Tottenham Court road, on Sunday afternoon, Dr Find lay said that New Zealanders were read 3 to make sacrifices for the Empire. The growing sense of Imperialism was ever keener than in Great Britain. New Zea landers were prepared to work for this end, and were looking forward to the daj when some great statesman would take the elements of federation and mould them into something like an organic whole. What was happening at the Premier’s’ Conference showed that New Zealand was anxious to make sacrifices for closer union. On Saturday Lord Roberts reviewed 10,000 London boys and girls in connection with the League of Empire’s parade in Hyde Park. Tire Duke of Fife and his daughters, the Lord Mayor of London, and other metropolitan mayors were present. The final grouping or flags symbolised Britannia and her children in the face of danger.- The bugles sounded an alarm, and the children, carrying flags, formed a square about tjie Union Jack. The ladies of the Empire Club gave a banquet in honour of the wives of the delegates to the Imperial Conference. Tire Duchess of Connaught, the Princess Patricia, Lady Denman, Lady Northoote, Lady Carrington, and Mrs Joseph Cham berlain were among those present. May 29. Two hundred thousand spectators witnessed the League of Empire parade. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, and a number of Australian visitors were present.