Imperial Federation league
The annual meeting of the Federation League at the Mansion House yesterday was°more successful than the same re-union la&t year- That, I think, is about all thai can be siid. Sir Win. AicArthur occupied the chair (vice the Lord Mayor, indisposed), and the main .supporters of the League (feuch as Mr 0. Y. Morgan, M.P., Captain Colorab, Lord Strathedon, Sir F. D. Bell, Sir Gl.G 1 . Bowen, .Sir H. Bmkly, Professor Seelcy, Sir H. Verney and Sir A. Gait, mustered in force. The outside public, however, manifested but little interest in the proceedings. The committee in their report deplored Foibter's death, alluded to the establishment of the journal of the league, "Imperial Federation,"' and urged the necessity of a capital fund being founded which would yield a clear LoOO a year, exclusive of subscriptions. Lords Rosebcrry and Carnarvon, who had promised to speak, sent letters of apology. Hon. James Service, in moving the adoption of the report, said :—: — In endea\ouring to conserve the unity of the Empire for all time, it was of the highest importance that the Government .should understand what every portion of the population of the Empire felt with regard to Imperial matters. The colonists had long desired that their views upon matters affecting themselves should be heard and duly considered by the Colonial Office ; and that due vigour "and interest should be shown in carrying out a policy that had been once endorsed by the Impeiial Government. The colonists would not be unreasonable in their demands, and were prepared to sink their own feelings to a large extent in favour of the higher interests of the Empire. But at the present moment the feeling in the colonies with respect to the method of_ carrying out Imperial policy was one of dissatisfaction, to use no stionger word. (Hear, hear.) In New Guinea, in the New Hebrides, everywhere in the Pacific, all the give had been on one side, and all the take on the other. English statesmen were too much taken up with their party politics to give that attention to the defence of the Empire which was absolutely essential. (Cheers.) Party policies ought to be banished in the consideration of Imperial interests. (Cheers.) At the suggestion of Sir A. Gait the League placed on record its satisfaction at the summoning of the impending Colonial Conference. Sir Alexander expressed a special hope that the questions of postal and 'telegraphic communication between the colonies and the mother country, and also of a Commercial Union, would be thoroughly threshed out at the Conference.
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)
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427Imperial Federation league Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 205, 28 May 1887, Page 5 (Supplement)
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