COMMERCE AND SENTIMENT.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13494, 13 June 1914, Page 5

COMMERCE AND SENTIMENT.

AUSTRALASIA'S LOYALTY

(Received June 12, 11.25 p.m.)

London, June 12.

Lord Emmott; in proposing the toast of "British and Australasian Trade," recalled his visit to Australasia, and said no part of the Empire was more loyal or more ready to make sacrifices for the defence of common interests. He constantly found it necessary to assure Australasia that Great Britain was not going backward. Though trade was a valuable Imperial bond, it was rather a symptom than a cause, but it was a valuable aid to sentiment.

Lord Bryce said he was well able to expound Australasia's friendliness .to the United States. He was certain that if there were further fleet visits the previous cordiality would be repeated. Commerce was important, and the bonds of friendship were rapidly increasing. The opening of the Panama Canal would result in a fast growth of trade and personal intercourse. Both countries had the same ideals of freedom, industrial progress, and peace. With two such, countries bordering^the Pacific, that ocean shoiild be truly

pacific