FEDERATION THE EMPIRE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12768, 14 April 1910, Page 3

FEDERATION THE EMPIRE.

PAPER BY SIR GILBERT PARKER.

[■Paiss Association — Copyright.]

(Received April 13, 10.50 p.m.) London, April io. Sir Gilbert Parker read a paper at the. Royal Colonial Institute on the New Empire; He declared that a parliamentary federation seemed further off than in the days of those great dreamers, Sir James Service and Jan Hof meyer. Time had shown that an Imperial Union on the lines of an Imperial Parliament had too great difficulties and too few advantages to permit of the fulfilment of that great constitutional dream. He thought a formula for some sort of union would yet be found. Australia, firmly supported by New Zealand, Cape Colony, and Natal, had unostentatiously laid the foundation of a real Impena.li Navy.