Federal Premier.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 May 1911, Page 3

Federal Premier.

REMARKABLE WELCOME iiV OLD COMRADES. [UV JSLECTIUC TKLEGHAFH--COPIrtItHT.J I.PSK PHEBS ABfO^jATIQJI.J (Received Tliie Day, 10.30 a ni.) LONDON, May 18. Mr Fisher (the Premier of Australia) received an enthusiastic welcome on his visit to Scotland. There was a great demonstration at Crosshouse, the village where he was born. Miners fresh from the pit, villagers and school children took part iu the welcome. Old miners who were his comrades in Mr Fisher's colliery days and old women wrung his hands effusively. School children sang '"' A Man's ;i Man for -v' That.'\ Mr Fisher was much moved when he was returning thanks for the villagers' reception. NEWSPAPER FACTS AND .FANCIES.

The Ball Mall Gazette (Conservative), complimenting Sir G. .Reid on yesterday's striking reception, says that as Labour .Ministers Messrs Ei-sher (Australian Premier), Bachelor (Minister of External Affairs), and Pearce- (Minister of Defence), enlist the curiosity and interest of all politicians. The journal s,a,ys that what strikes one about Mr Fisher and his colleagues is the ingenuousness with which they approach the biggest of international problem*. Mr Eisher has high ideals of the bond of Empire with him, but there is an indication of a larger bond of amity for Englishspeaking nations .This was an admirable sentiment, though it did not obliterate one's c:>nr-io!isne.ss of intervening difficulties. Yesterday's sentiments wore prr'gsvint. with aid to the Imperial idea.

The Daily Ncw.s (Radical), after having cursorily dismissed Sir Joseph Ward's Imperial Council scheme, remark's that whatever reorganisation the Conference may effect it would possibly merely bo a modst readjustment of the Imperial Secretariat and tho Colonial Office with possibly some, more definite approach to the establishment of jtn Imperial Court of Appeal. This would not be magnificent statesmanship, but it would be practical statesmanship.