AN IMPERIAL GATHERING.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 13 August 1901, Page 3

AN IMPERIAL GATHERING.

'BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.]

[Per Press Association.]

London. August 12. At Blenheim on Saturday the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough entertained 3000 Union representatives at lancheon. Hon Mr Balfour in a speech dealt with (he anti-patriotic Opposition, with the tactics of the Irish Party, and tbe indissoluble alliance of both wings of the Unionists.

Mr Chamberlain in a strong speech declared that the Liberal Imperialists would never extricate the remnant of the Liberal Party from the Pro-Boer and Little Englander marsh. Lord Roseberry had lately recommended the Imperial Association to call themselves Liberal Imperialists, but they put the word Imperialists in brackets, implying that Imperialism was merely a political parenthesis. The Unionists would have nothing to do with Imperialism in brackets, (cheers) After declaring that the behaviour of the Nationalists during the past sessions had rendared the reduction of the present overrepresentation of Ireland and urgent matter, Mr Chamberlain eulogised the steadfastness of the democracy in defence of the whole Empire. When Sir H CampbellBannerman asks for peace at any price, we will answer as Lincoln answered the pessimist minority of copperheads in the north, and history would justify us, as it had justified Lincoln.