AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN POLITICS.

ME. DEAKLVS EETIEEMENT. ?,By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, January 9. The newspapers give prominence to Mr. Deakin’s resignation. The ‘Chronicle’ says that the Empire loses a forceful character, and one wliose prestige was only second to Sir W. Laurier’s. The ‘Daily News’ says that the retiring politician terminates his political life as he began, plain Alfred Deakin. He is one of the very few colonial statesmen holding that titular honour from the Motherland are rot a fitting reward for public service 'n the new States of the Empire. The ‘Morning Post’ says that Mr. Deakin is one of our race leaders. Sydney, January 9. The newspapers, in their tributes lo Mr. Deakin’s statesmanship, regret the causes of the retirement of so prominent a figure in Commonwealth politics. London, January 9. ‘The Times’ deeply regrets Mr. Deakin’s retirement. Englishmen, it says, regard him as on© of the leaders of the whole Imperial movement, whose vision ranged beyond his own dominion.