THE EMPIRE.
PROSPECTS OF UNION. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. April 13, 10.50 p.m.) London, April 13. Sir Gilbert Parker, Unionist M.P. for Gravcsend, read .a paper before the. Royal Colonial Djstitute on "The New Empire." . He declared that Parliamentary federation seems farther off than in'the. days of those great dreamers, Sir James .Service and Jan Hofmeyr. Time has shown that Imperial union on the lines of an Imperial Parliament has too great difficulties, and. too. few advantages to permit of the fulfilment of a great constitutional dream. . He thought that the formula for some sort of union would yet be found. Australia, firmly supported by Now Zealand,, Cape Colony, and Natal, had unostentatiously laid the foundation . of a real Imperial navy.. -■■ ■..■;•<[ •-. .
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 791, 14 April 1910, Page 5
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