THE EMPIRE
WHAT TT HACKS. COLON'] AH TENDENCI Eg. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyrij?lit.>’LONDON, January 22. Receiver] January 2", 12..10 n.m. Mr Sydney James How. in ilio first of a series of Rhodes lectures to students of Kind’s Coll eye on the severance of the. British Empire said that from a superficial view. the Empire lacked nearly all the elements to successfully unite it. There was no community of race, l.r.guage or religion: no common coinage, marriage, naturalisation, hank-: ruptcy, commercial or land laws; noEmpire flag. Hegally there was a common unity in: the law in regard to the -supremacy of the Crown. and the comprehensivs! powers, which the law attributed to it. But the law was nor recognised. ThoEmpire recognised only the dominionapossessions of the Crown, in spite of a, legal theoretical supremacy of the Tin—perial Parliament. Colonial opinion was moving toward* the equality of their institutions. Thero was no inclination overseas to question, the authority of the Crown, though ihcru was a disposition to restrain v ithin narrow limits the technical supremacy, of the Imperial Parliament.
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Southland Times, Issue 17558, 23 January 1914, Page 5
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