IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 14 June 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

o FINAL COURTS OF APPEAL. London, Juno 13. 1 At the Imperial Conference Mr. Batchelor insisted on the awkwardness of having separate final Courts of Appeal in the United Kingdom and the Dominions, and the inconvenience of getting a reply of a single majority judgment of the Privy Council, instead of separate opinions of all Judges. t _ Lord Loreburn emphasised the Goy- » eminent’s willingness to give the Dominions whatever sort of final Court they wanted, but the old forms must \ bo maintained. The Conference agreed that the procedure and membership of the two Courts should be assimilated as far as possible, preserving the •Ja names. None of •' o i»oniimons were able to spare Judges to serve as Overseas members of the Privy Council.

COLONIAL PREMIERS. HARD "WORKED. London, June 13. Sir Wilfrid Lauder is confined to his room with a sore throat. The Premiers are working at least seventeen hours a day. \ Mr. Fisher is receiving one ! uadred letters and thirty callers daily. He has been made an honorary member of twenty-eight clubs, and hie engagements are, so continuous that it is difficult for him to find an hour for \ office work. V • SPAIN AND MOROCCO. A REVOLTING CRIME. Madrid, Juno 13. A report front Alcazar states that one of'Spain’s motives in occupying Larache was to murder the Hamid Beumalek and two sons, who wen Spanish pioteges, , r The Pretender promised Hamid ms life if he would eat the flesh of the murdered children. Hamid refused, and was instantly killed and his head kicked about like a football. FIERCE FIGHTING. Tangier, June 13. General Monier occupied Mcquinez on the Bth inst., after fierce fighting for seven hours. The French had one killed and five wounded. The Moors had fifty killed. THE DUEZ TRIAL. A JURY’S TASK. Paris, June 13. The Duez trial has commenced. The jury have to answer 4300 questions. ; Duez, examine, repudiated the confession he made when first arrested. Ho admitted frauds to the extent of £55,400 sterling. THE FRENCH BUDGET. A BIG DEFICIT. Paris. Juno 13. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Caillauk stated that, despite the increase in revenue .of/ \£7, *200,000 stei-* ling, the Budget would show a deficit of £2,160,000 , sterling, , NEW ZEALANDERS IN LONDON. ANNUAL DINNER. THE DOMINION EULOGISED. London, June 13. There v ere. three, hundred guests at the New Zealand, annual dinner at the Trocadero Hotel, including Lord Plunket (ex-Governor of New Zealand), the Hon. Pomber Reeves, Captain Sir William R. Russell, Dr. Findlay, K.C., and the Agonts-Gonc-ral. Mr L. Harcourt, in proposing a toast, said that Now Zealand was successfully solving the riddle of closer settlement. '■ / Two million acres had been thrown opep since January. There was evidence that opportunities were being offered to British youths of small l means. New Zealand’s filial act, said Mr Harcourt, in presenting a Dreadnought had helped to bind the nations of the Empire together with a silken cord which no enemy would be able to break. The Imperial Conference marked an advance in Imperial co-operation beyond its predecessors. The keynote of future Imperial development would be, not centralisation, but co-opera-tion. Sir J. G. Ward agreed it was impossible to judge the Imperial Conference by the resolutions passed. Personally, ho was determined to conti:.ue to urge changes in the Imperial system, which lie believed were essential. In the future the Dominions required to do more than return the protection which Britain gave them. The combination of the nations of the Empire would make it impossible for any country to enter upon a policy of aggression. Sir E. Montagitd Nelson proposed the toast of the guests. Earl Rahfurly (ex-6overnor of New Zealand) and M. A. Fisher, Commonwealth Prime Minister ,responded. Mr Fisher declared that Now Zealand led the world in social legislation. Australia was following her example, and would perhaps step ahead of her. Ho hoped- the time was near when Australia and .Now Zealand would be able to protect themselves from aggression, leaving the Home Country to guard the heart of the Empire. .i• . , AUSTRALIAN BEEF. HINDUS' WANT IT. 1 London, June 13. The Calcutta correspondent of the “Daily Mail”’ stqtes that a monster petition is in circulation amongst the, Hindus for presentation at the Coronation durbar, praying the King to direct that the supply of beef for the troops in India be obtained from Aus--y talia instead of from local sources. The Hindus are willing that a direct tax be levied on them to cover the cost of cold storage. The correspondent adds that it will greatlv benefit agriculture, and mentions that the price of plough-bullocks has doubled in recent years.

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