COLONIAL FEDERATION.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 331, 19 June 1878, Page 4

COLONIAL FEDERATION.

Sir Julius Vogels rejoinder to Mr. Lowe and Lord Blachford, on the consolidation, as opposed to the dismemberment, of the Empire, in t ie Nineteenth Century , is characterised'by a breadth of view which contrasts adyantageoudy with the narrow outlook of the two writers whose statements and arguments he controverts. Accustomed ■to survey the question from the circumforom e < f il Creator Britain,” the New Zealand statesman has a much truer, conception of its magnitude, and of the magnificent possibilities which are involved in Imperial federation, than is exhibited by the other disputants, whose range of vision seems to he bounded by the “ silver streak” which separates England geographically from the rest of the world. The Imperial sentiment appears to be much stronger indeed in the mind of-the colonists than it is in that of M Lowe, who has been so long a resident in the mother country that the ramgc of his sympathies and aspirations seems to have become contracted, or in that of Lord Blachford, whose temper may have been soured perhaps by official worries in connection with the various colonics. Melbourne Aryus.