The Federation Scheme
By Electric Telegraph.— Copyrigh t (PEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) T '■ London, March 23. Lord .Roseherry, presiding ' at a meeting of the Federation League, ! Stated that the Defence Committee, of >- j which Lord Brassey had been elected President, would shortly make a report .to the League. Lord Boseberry urged the importance of securing the safety • of colonial interests in the event of war, and thought it more important at the present juncture to cultivate the sympathy of coionial aims than to ; give colonists seats in the British Parliament. He thought it would be | difficult for any man to say whether , within the next decade, Home or Colonial influence would predoininato. in the British Empire. J^ord Brassey, in the course of a speech ontheocca- Asion, said that during his,recent tour Wl of the Australian colonies he had con* A'l versed with the leading, publio men of Australia bit the aims and objects of the Federation League, and that ho had been assured by Mr Gillies and " Mr Deakin, Premier and Chief Secretory respectivoly of Victoria, that coloniel Ministers approved the policy of*"" the League. I*ordßtanleyalsospako and strongly advocated the desu*afcleness of givi&g tho colonies direct ranroseutotiofa in the British ParHameni
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 100, 24 March 1888, Page 2
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201The Federation Scheme Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 100, 24 March 1888, Page 2
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