THE EMPIRE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1948, 3 December 1906, Page 3

THE EMPIRE.

EARL GREY'S OPINION. moomi PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Ottawa, Nov. 30, Earl Grey, speaking at Toronto, said boforo long Dominion farmers would look to tho Oriont as the maikot for their produce. Canadians woro able to covoLsp tfcoir nationality because they were within tho Crown’s protecting droit). English people know that wtiou tho appointed lima arrived Canadians would assume Imperial obligations. This fooling of self resptet will produce a system of Imperial Federation, the autonomous colonies join iog Britain in au equal partnership to discharge Imperial icspousiailitias oud obliga'ions.

ATTITUDE OF AUSTRALIA, MESS ASSOCIATION’ -CO fVI! It! UT Received 4.1 D pm., Dae, 2. London, Deo. 1. At the Royal Scottish Corporation a St. Andrew's Day festival in London, Mr Tovernor, Agent-General ter Victoria, iu proposing tho mass of too Impori'il forces, referred 10 the Commonwealth proposal to establish harbor aud coa-dal defono?. He denied that there was a vestige of troth in the suggestion that Australians desired to out the painter- Taey woro anxious to share the Empire’s responsibilities. They recognised that they must accept the responsibility of doing some# thing for themselves, but they were always in sympathy and harmony with the Imperial navy. Whatever Australia was doing regarding a local Davy, in the eveDt of war it became immediately part of the B.ilish navy.