THE OTTAWA CONFERENCE.
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS. STEAMSHIP LINES TO CANADA. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Ottawa, June 5. The Conference at Toronto asked Sir Wilfrid Laurier to urge the Premiers’ Conference to secure a Royal Commission of British and Colonial representatives to investigate and suggest a scheme for preferential treatment. A small majority wore in favor of an annual appropriation in the Budget to enable the Dominion to decide its own special participation in tho general defence of the Empire. The Conference urges Great Britain to accredit to foreign governments consular agonts appointed-by tho Colonies, empowered to protect British rights. The Conference endorses Canada’s subsidising cargo steamships to South Africa and Australia, in order to allow tho ratos to be as low as from New York.
A speaker at a banquet to tho delegates confirmed the early eatab'islnncnt of a Canadian line of fast Trans-Atlantic steamers out of Pierpont Morgan’s reach. They must also have a Canadian lino of freight steamers. Sir Charles Muloclc announced that a cargo line to Australia would be established in a few months, at Canada’s expense, if necessary.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 437, 9 June 1902, Page 2
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