BOTH SIDES CLAIM COLONIAL SUPPORT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 711, 10 January 1910, Page 5

BOTH SIDES CLAIM COLONIAL SUPPORT.

.FORCING OF:A REFERENDUM. ' '~ - London, January 7. The "Manchester Guardian"- and,other Liberal newspapers are : quoting .': Aus', trali'an'nowspaperb.to prove, that .colonial opinion , isopposed-to' the claim, of, the House.:of Lords : to. force a. referendum.' . ; . Mr. Francis. Dormer, writing asan old colonistto "The' Times," donbts whether public feeling overseas supports the .new' dopartujes. in the. Liberal policy. :,He offers to. pay-the .cost, of ,a referendum •by cable, to every daily paper in the Empire, if.' any Liberal is willing to pay. the. expenses/should: tho replies' provo that, the colonies favour the Conservatives.':. •, ..."The commenting on Mr.Dor-mer's-'chaUenge, ..declares /that colonial opinion need, not be. ascertained. Broadly, the parties .'overseas support "■. their British equivalents. : ; It .-is .unimportant: what opinion 'one;part of the.Empire holds-re-garding : .l;he internal: affairs;, of part,., but, it is: important to; opinion regarding .Imperial questions:. . . ; ! The'paper adds".that.in- the. matter of preference. ,-the'•;',. Dominions. ■ overwhelm-, ingly support .'the,;Unionist ; ,polidy,V. ; .V : !AN;-IMPARTIAL :SECOI«fD; CHAMBER.' .:/'"./ '"'" ':.-•'_.'.''• ;■:;, i ; Lpndori, January 7;--ji-- .-' Sir, Edward "Grey,'- Seorotary; for : Foreign: Affairs, .addressing, his Sconstitueriis at Berwick,- favoured; ari.'JmpaitiaL'Second Chamb'eij,/'amenable. to i the' .opinion of the^cpuntrVsiJ.''.''' ■/:':,/:.::' •'■:!'" :- Mri '';Winstph ''.of the'Boai ; d;bf. ; seeking iW: 'election for;VDuhdpp, .'in'- the ";course of a Bpeooh.to.; the/electors, said the 'L'onV/ veto :yas\.th6;'ufst.;'questibri -to be: considered. ' ■'Then, as f-'tlio :. discussion upon 1 the character ■" 'of .the".' Secbnd .Chamber had begun,.' it;!must.:provo;,fatal'/to thohorPditary.principle',;' /:;. ;'' : V;' i ..:. 1 i;:: ;