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"Times" Empire Issue.

"The Times," in an Empire Day supplement, devotes special attention to Australasia, and reviews the origin of the labour movement and the railway and agricultural development of the Commonwealth, and the course of Australian politics. Senator Pearce, the Commonwealth Minister for Defence, contributes a message showing the purpose of tho spirit of defence. A special feature of the issue is a history of the late Mr. Seddon, and his party's twenty-years' reign'in New Zealand. The "Westminster Gazette" (Liberal) is silent regarding the celebrations, and the "Manchester Guardian" (Liberal) publishes sixteen lines emphasising the joy to children who received bans and chocolate. Tho "Star" (Liberal) belittles the event, and the "Daily News" (Liberal) ignores it, though it has a column of correspondence, readed "Conscription in NewZealand." The "Financier" publishes a sixty-eight page Empire supplement, including articles from all the AgentsGeneral. The "Daily Graphic" has also a forty-page Empire Day supplement. The High Commissioner for Australia, Sir George Reid, has published Dr. Mawson's Empire Day congratulations sent by wireless from King George the Fifth Land in Antarctica. The Stock Exchange opened with the singing of the National Anthem.

A Wider Patriotism, "The Times" published a message from Mr. Fisher, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth. Mr. Fisher says national ideals are growing apace in the overseas Empire, where the people's manifest desire to take up their full share of the responsibilities and duties of subordinate nationhood is a most hopeful sign of a wider patriotism that will go far to assure the safety of the Empire.

"Tho eagwaess of Einpire : buil ; dejs to impose rniore binding ties,", adds Mr! Fisher, "appears to me a mistake. Snch ties could never bo used coercively and would be a poor substitute for the strong, flexible, and unfelfc ties of love and duty which call us to the breach in time of danger. If annual Imperial Conferences could be held—not always in London—the world would hear less of Empire dangers. 1 '

'Colonial Institute Dinner. At the Colonial Institute's dinner, Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, presided, and amongst the three hundred guests present were Admiral Prince Louis of Battenburg, lord Emmott (Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies), lord.Chelmsford (lately Governor of New South Wales), and' the AgentsGeneral. Lord Sydenham (formerly Govornor of Bombay and Victoria, and for some time secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence), proposed the toast "Imperial Defence." He said the colonies had accepted compulsory service, and he hoped the Motherland ■ would soon settle the question.

' In Times of Stress. Mr. Peake, Premier of South Australia, in responding, said Australia's navy and citizen army were primarily for home defence, but would be offered to the Imperial authorities directly occasion arose. In times of stress Australia would not wait to ask if England was right, but would help with substance and men, and inquire into the rights ofj the quarrel afterwards. She did -this in the South African War when'the difficulty was to select volunteers. Lord Emmott, in proposing "The Dominions," expressed the Empire's gratifications at Mr. Rsher's announcement, that his Governrn'snt would be adding a battleship and three to the Australian. Navy. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, M.P., said Britain had been taught by the colonies to realise the Imperial idea. He paid a tribute to Mr. Borden's magnificent action in offering three Dreadnoughts on behalf of Canada. Australia was also fully alive to tho urgency of the naval problem. Mr. Watt, Premier of Victoria, proposed 'The Colonial Institute." He said Australians were not Jingoes, but peaceable people. That was why they wanted the Southern Pacific for themselves, and they approached the defence question in that spirit.

AUSTRALIAN CELEBRATIONS. "THE ONLY WAY TO GET PEACE." (Rec. May 25, 5.5 p.m.) 1 Sydney, May 25. The Federal Government entertained th« Navy and Army Veterans' Association at an Empire Day dinner on Saturday, when spcl&ches were delivered by the State Governor, Sir Gerald Strickland, tho Commonwealth Attorney-General, Mr. W. M. Hughes, and others. Mr. Hughes, in referring to Sir Gerald Strickland's praise of the cadet movement, said: "We have got what wo have by power of a.ras, and only by that means can wo retain it. The only way to get peace is to let others know that wo are ready to fight." At tho Empire League dinner, Sir William STMilla-n presiding, Sir Gerald Strickland,, tho State Premier (Mr. M'Gowen, Admiral King-Hall, and others delivered speeches. . Australia's Navy. Tho Admiral, in replying to the toast of "The Navy," referred to tho rise of tho Japanese and German naval power, and predicted that in the same way the Australian Navy, though only a child at present, would ono day bo second to none in the Pacific, providing that Australia was populated as it should be. "Other navies," added tho Admiral, "have also come into existence. It is not necessary for'me to cross the 't's' and dot the Ts.* Tho vision is so clcar that he who runs may Tead. Both Britain and Australia depend on tho highways being efficiently policed, and must take precautions tu

ensure that their iire not strickcn down in a s-truggle which to us would mean extinction, though it would be only n great di.-oster to our antagonists if they were beaten." NEW ZEALAND CELEBRATIONS, Th» Queen Victoria statue was decorated with some wreaths yesterday in honour of Empire Dov (says a Pi'<*s Association message from Dnmedin). Tho only other celebration of tho day was made by the Dunedin branch of tho Overseas Club, which held a patriotic concert in His Majesty's Theatre in. the evening. At Invcrcargill wreaths were placed on the Troopers' Memorial. Empire Day was celebrated at Auckland Tjy a parade of Empire veterans and a reunion round the base of Queen Victoria's statue in Albert Park, followed by a luncheon in the Town llall.

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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5

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"Times" Empire Issue. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5

"Times" Empire Issue. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5

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