COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME

Hastings Standard, Issue 347, 14 June 1897, Page 3

COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME

(Per "Press Association —i'opyrxjht). London, June 13. The Colonial" Premiers with their wives and families paid a visit to Liverpool yesterday, and were cordially welcomed by the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. alderman Thomas Hughes. The colonial Premiers were entertained at luncheon by the Empire League. The speeches of the guests were an embodiment of the sympathetic and loyal feeling of the colonists towards Britain. The United Empire League entertained five of the colonial Premiers. At tbe luncheon, Lord llalisbnry, in proposing the toast of the gue-ts, said it was important that trade between Great Britain and the colonies should be preserved and our own people employed carrying on such trade. Sir George Turner, in replying to the tpast, said that all doubt as to the JStttSky of the colonies ought long since to have been removed. If England ever required assistance as far as defence was concerned the colonists would be pleased to repay Britain for many advantages, privileges, and benefits she had conferred •opon* them. Mr Seddon demanded that England sbouli denounce the commercial treaties with Germany and Belguim. Germany, he held, had violated the bargain by subsidising a line of steamers to the injury of British trade. The colonies, he said, •were treated worse than foreigners with regard to tbe investment of trust finds. The Hon. C. C. Kingston, Sir John Forrest, and the Hon. T. Byrnes «lso rdjdted to tbe toast.