IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8815, 17 May 1907, Page 2

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Press Association. —Copyright. London, May 16. Mr Churchill, in reply to Mr Lehmann, emphatically contradicted tho newspaper report that Mr Bond was complaining of gross humiliation inflicted on him and his colony, and that he quitted the Conference in indignation. Press, and Other Comments. The Chronicle says the Conference was unusually fruitful, compared with its predecessors. The Westminster Gazette comments on Mr Dcakin and Dr. Jameson very severely and asks whether it is fair that the forty millions of the United Kingdom should ho coerced by appeals to tho patriotism of the Empire iuto submitting to taxation for the benefit of colonial farmery already prosperous. Do the colonies wish democratic statesmen to make common cause with the Conservative and Auti-Democratio parties to further a policy which will raise the price of the necessaries of life? Freedom is greater than free trade and England never attempted to force her policy upon the self-governing colonies. Mr Haldane, at a meeting in London, said Government had shown in the Conference that tho Liberals had a constructive policy. They had done a great deal of business and laid the foundations of a great deal more. Twenty suffragists howled Air Haldane down and were expelled amid great excitement.