BRITISH POLITICS.
AUSTRALASIAN BANQUET,
By/telegraph, Press Ae»'e, Copyright Itcooivod 11,80 p tn., May 9. London, May 9. Mr Chamberlain preaidod at tho Australasian merchants’ banquet. There wero 200 guests, including a number of prominent oolooials, Mr Hooves, all tbe Agents-General, nrid many leading merchants and bankers. Iu proposing tho toast ot British-Auetralasian trado, Mr Cbamberlrin said bo thought it would do them a great injustice to think tboy were solely intimated in what a distinguished statesman of tho moment, in a rhetorical indiscretion, had called sordid bonds. Trado was tho ptimo mover in tho creation of tho world’s greatest Empire. He emphasised tho inheritance and responsibilities of tbe relations of Ibo selfgoverning colonies, which constitute almost a miracle of constitutional administration. The colonies wero now nations worthy of us, and ho hoped we would bo worthy of them. They had grown too big to be very careful about petty things,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1745, 10 May 1906, Page 2
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