BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12245, 18 May 1908, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Per United Press Association. )

CANADA AND THE OLD COUNTRY.

New York, May 15. | At a meeting of the Canadian Club at New York, Mr Justice Lougley, of Halifax, predicted that Canada would] ultimately become an independent State in alliance with Great Britain; The British Ambassador stronglySdissected from this view, whereupon Mr Justice Longley left the room.

Ottawa, May 15,

Replying to Senator Domville Scott, the Canadian Secretary of State said that if owing td Mr Asquith's reoent. declaration the Union Jack is not flown on English public buildings on Empire Day, the only effect will be that it will b 6 flown still|more generally in Canada.