COLONIAL TOPICS. London, December 5.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 323, 8 December 1888, Page 5

COLONIAL TOPICS. London, December 5.

At a dinner at St. George's Club Lord Carnarvon said il was to the greatest advantage of the colonies that they should leave the Ciown untrammelled in the appointment of Governors. He thought at the same time that the colonies should have a larger voice in the discussion of Imperial matters, and hoped they would ere long be represented by a judicial committee m the Privy Council. He said the colonies now enjoyed self-government to the uttermost possible limits, beyond which the system was incapable of extension ; and two surviving tangible ties between them and the Mother Country were Her Majesty's representatives and the Privy Council. Sir Arthur Biythe, Agent-General foi South Aus'ralu, responding to the toast of " The Colonies," euio^ised the Colonial Office. Formerly Dowmugstreet could not be referred to in the colonies but in terms of reproach ; : now, however, a marked change for the better had come about. He hoped the Empire would remain unbroken, and gave a strong assurance of the loyalty of the colonies to the sovereign. Mr Henniker Heaton also responded, and in the course of his speech advocated the cheapening of cable and postal facilities between Great Britain and the colonies.