IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13293, 23 May 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

MR DEAKIN'S PARTING VIEWS.

Press Association-Bv Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, May 21.

Mr Deakin. interviewed prior to liis departure, stated t-hat the official resolutions unanimously passed at the Conference -were insufficient to call for congratulations. On several most important subjects the delegates not only failed to • induce the acceptance ~of their proposals, but they failed even to receive a definite approach towards them, though something ■was done in nearly ■every case that could have been accomplihed ■by correspondence, but the general indirect and unexposed results justified a very different tone. Thev constituted a total effect which he Vould not attempt at present to estimate. It was impossible at present to say what effect the Conference would produce upon Australia. Every such interchange of views tended to closer relations with the Motherland and the Colonies. Whatever friction may have occurred during his visit was mereley individual and transitory. The delegates separated cherishing the hope that the great- idea.s which inspired their gatherings would yet be crystallized. Future Conferences would be placed on a more permanent basis, and better equipped for wide responsibilities.