SPEECH BY THE BRITISH PREMIER

West Coast Times, Issue 13794, 10 April 1906, Page 3

SPEECH BY THE BRITISH PREMIER

London, April 9

Sir Henry CsmpbelUßannerman, in a speech at the Fishmongers' Society's annual diiner, emphasised that it was the desire of the Government that there should be conciliation and harmony in South Africa ; that there should be justice aod equality for all whites there ; and certainly tbat British eopremrcf there should be maintained.

He hoped, he said, that the settlement tbat had beec made at Algeciras would lead to the diminution of the frightful military burdens of the nations. Their own conntry could set an example in this respect. The Premier urged that tbe fiscal re* formers should let their agitation r«st a while, in order to diminish the projudicial effects and the uncertainty which resulted from it at Home snd abroad.