IMPERIAL QUESTIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13235, 15 March 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL QUESTIONS.

REFORM IN THE .1 ORDS. ' United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 13. Since llie Brigg election and tlie London ..County Council:elections' the;. Liberals, talk less, about, th.efHousfc-of. Lords,, but. Sir ( haile-, Dnke . r d Radicils .ue 'memorialising' Sir H. Campbell-Baiinermah,.; iuid asking .for an early .iKonounc.ementf of. the .Government's.intentions. Lord; jlonkWeli,; Speaking, at, Dover, _ saidthat the Liberal must.cut the claws oi > the Loi'ds, ~ Co'nServative : reformers fl'ished, l to strengthen: thosHquse of

IMPERIAL ORGANISATION. LONDON, March 14. , Sir: Frederick Pollock' lias published in. the: ; '.':Tiines^"■ : a memorh.ndvun signed; by .ill e Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Rut'-arcd, Viscount- Milner, Lord Tennyson, Lord Aye-, bury,-. Sir Johh/;Colomb, -Professor Scli.ust.ei',. Sir: G. Sydenham. Clarke,;' the Hon. W\ P. Reeveis, 1 and r iitlier.S, butliriii/g. the -esselitial' points on 'general -'agreenient' is; possible % \tegtoding Imperial ! organisation. Tlie conclusions resemble tllpse indicated, in the Hon. Alfred;.'Lytifcelfcoii's despatch, and" suggest- machinery enabfipg \ t''e =': Colonial '.Conferences., to ..acquire.;Something in the nature'' of corporate, continuity, by the creaciph ' qf. a.. ;x>ermahent . secretarial ,or, intelligence;, department, anfT by permanent rejifesentaticin: oK'the colonial governments -in London by the High' Commissioners and other specially .appointed', persons., Tlie '.Timescordially,, eridorses" tlie genera! objechs. but tliinlcs' tlie; memorandum -errs' on' .the side ,:hf:sexcessive vague-' iiess. especially when' 'referring' to peimalieht representation.',: of>-the: colonies. '.