HEART BEATS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10, 12 September 1913, Page 5

HEART BEATS.

THE EMPIRE COMMISSION.

IMPRESSED WITH AUSTRALIA

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

Sydney, September 11. The British Parliamentarians were

greatly impressed with the northern trip, and are eulogistic o fthe beaulies and potentialities of Australia

generally. There was a great gathering of the legal talent at the Supreme Court to witness the admission of legal members of the party to the New South Wales Bar. There was an imposing ceremony, and subsequently the whole party were the guests of the Chamber of Commerce at lunch.

• The President of the Chamber declared that the visit would help towards greater mutual understanding and sympathy, without which nothing in the Empire's ideals could be achieved.

Sir Joseph Walton, replying for the visitors, ssaid that they had viewed with pride and admiration the development already achieved in Australia. He congratulated the Empire on what Australia had done.

Colonel Carlisle similarly praised the country. If the visit taught them anything it was that the security on loans was in every sense satisfactory. He asked them to .encourage British manufacturers to send what Australia wanted.

THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION

(Received 8.30 a.m.) Sydney, September 12

Lord Emmott, at a Chamber of Commerce lunch, dealing with immigration, said that if the Empire is to remain a great and united Empire, the heart of the Empire must be sound, ai>d it did not look sound if the British population was decreasing while the population of Germany and other countries was increasing; therefore, while desirous that every emigrant of the United Kingdom should go to the Dominions or other parts of the Emp:re, lie would look with great anxiety upon a condition of affairs which led to the decrease of the population of the United Kingdom, because then everybody would say'that the days of the British Empire, or, at any rate, the heart of the Empire were numbered

INTO TWO SECTIONS

(Received 9.30 a.m.) Sydney; September 2

The members have split up into two divisions. One has gone to Melbourne, from where a short visit will be paid to Tasmania, and the other has left by special train for Canbarra and the irrigation works at Barrinjack and Yanco

A PATRIOTIC SPEECH

Admiral King-Hall, responding to the toast of "The Empire" at the Chamber of Commerce "banquet, said : "1 am a staunch supporter of the Commonwealth naval policy. It is the only practical thing. It is that or nothing. It is a great fallacy to suppose that the initiation of an Australian Navy will weaken and in time dissolve connection with Britain of one of her most vigorous sons. That will not be so, it will have the reverse effect. If the Empire rulers would only had ordinary wisdom and common senso it is inconceivable that the Australian Navy division of the Imperial Fleet would bo at their ports or only cruise the coasts of Australia, if the Empire were at war, as some foolish writers remarked, where the danger is, there will be found the Australian Navy flying the same White Ensign flown by Nelson, and the ships manned- by the same breed as that which won that victory." (Cheers.)