SIR E. BARTON IN CANADA.
Received September 22, 10.47 p.m
OTTAWA, September 22
Sir E. Barton's party was banquetted at Vancouver and Victoria. An allusion in the speeches to the Aliens Restriction Act and a "white Australia" evoked intense enthusiasm on botlh occasions. Sir E. Barton, referring to the preferential tariff, remarked that Australia would favour the Motherland not by a concession in the existing tariff, but by imposing duties on gaodk principaily from Germany and America.
Sir W. Forrest said Australia Avould stand no interference with her land forces, but the naval subsidy must be considerably augmented.
The party sailed by the Aorangi, seven hundred people giving them hearty cheers for a send-off.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 11745, 23 September 1902, Page 5
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