THE WAR IN TRIPOLI.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 80, 1 April 1912, Page 5

THE WAR IN TRIPOLI.

SHIEKS REFUSE ORGANISED OPPOSITION. AMMUNITION .SHORT. ißy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Cairo, March 30. The shieks at Elsenassi decline to organise a general movement against tne Italians. It is stated til at the Turks and Aral::; at Tripoli have ample fend, but that there is a shortage of ammunition. Visiting Pressmen?—?— ? ? A TALK ON FEDERATION. (Per Press Association ) Christchurch, March 30. A party of sixteen delegates from the Australian Provincial Press Association, which body recently held its annual conference in Auckland, arrived in Christchurch this morning en route to Melbourne. The pressmen were met at the railway station by Mr. P. Selig (chairman of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of New Zealand) and Mr. F. Hyman (vice-president). In the afternoon The Press and Lyttelton Times companies took the visitors for a motor tour, the route followed giving glimpses of the chief residential parts of tue city, the park, and the Riccarton racecourse. The return journey was made via Cashmere and Hackthorne Road. The visitors also visiter Sumner, where they were entertained at afternoon tea. Mr. J. J. Dougall, the Mayor, in welcoming the delegates, referred to the suggestion made by the Commonwealth Prime Minister (Mr A. Fisher) tiiat New Zealand should join the Commonwealth, and said that New Zealand had an individuality of her own, and was extremely unlikely to join the Commonwealth. Nevertheless, both countries nad much in common, and efforts should be directed towards securing reciprocal relations between them. Mr. T. Temperley (N.S.W.), in responding on behalf of the visitors, said that he had all along favoured Australian federation, and had volunteered to visit Queensland with the object cf getting that State'to join. At one time he Jiad thought it would be a grand thing to induce New Zealand to join the federation, and he was still of that opinionu. He agreed, however, that it would not be fair for New Zealand, at its great distance from Australia, to be governed from Melbourne or Sydney, but it might be possible to have some sort of federal bond between the two countries. They might have reciprocity. He considered New Zealand to be the most patriotic part of the British Empire, and mentioned what this country had done during the South African war in illustration of that fact. The majority of the party will leave for Dunedin on .Monday.