LORD CARRINGTON ON THE COLONIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2911, 1 March 1893, Page 2

LORD CARRINGTON ON THE COLONIES.

Addressing a public meeting in London. Lord Carrington, in the oour»e of his remarks, spoke as' follows : —When he first went to New South Wales as Governor, there was a certaim amount of State-aided immigration ; but that was stopped after two or three years-not through any hostility to the Mother Country, far from it. It was only to prevent any large number of irtisana ruthing suddenly to the big centres of population. The people wer« vary glad to welcome industrious men with money, who wouM take op land and make an honest living. They must not for a moment believe that the great and increasing feeling of narionality had anything in it of hostility to this country. But an Australian-born generationwjs springing up, an I the fueling of nationality and love for the country in which they were born wae ttpringing up at th«* same time amongst the people He never had believed, ani never would believe, that the feeling of nationality was incompatible with love for this country. In proof of ibe good feeling existing he alluded to the dispatch of the - contingent to the Soudan ten years ago, the erection of a memorial in St Paul's to the late Mr W. B. Dalley, and to the assistance—amounting to £28,000—which the Colonies gave to the great dock strike four years ago, not out of any feeling of class antagonism, but simply out of sympathy for titarvintc men and wumen of their own rac*\ But for that aid he was told the strike must have cnlfopued. Mr Gladstone had said that that strike was pregnant with hope for the future of all classes of labor, and he (Lord Carrington) should always remember with pride the fact that Australia had contributed to that end.