COLONIAL INSTITUTE. COLONISING POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN. London, December 12.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 325, 15 December 1888, Page 4

COLONIAL INSTITUTE. COLONISING POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN. London, December 12.

At a meeting of the Colonial Institute yesterday, the Hon. W. Gisborne, speaking on the subject ol colonisation, said trial the colonising and foreign policy of Great Britain was now so interwoven with her < olonial interests that it was impossible she could lose sight of the latter. He instanced the colonising of New Zealand and South Australia as examples of the success which had attended the Imperial colonial aid Humiliation scheme. Cail Meath advocates a communal system of emigration with imperially guaranteed loans. j Su Ciias. Tuppei, replying to aquesj tion lelative to Imperial Federation, i said it was a giand but impiacticablc I scheme. i Sir Julius Vogel pointed to lecent I events as showing that the colonial connection was precarious, and expressed the opinion that Imperial rederation of a national and aggiessive character could only be a practical system it j maintained by force. In the event oi such fedeiation he thought it would be necessary to establish an Impeiial I Council in the colonies concerned. It | i\v. s out ol the question to admit 'he possibility of England allowing a simple colony to secede from its Kmphe con1 nection. On the subject ot emigration, Sir Julius spoke at length in conj demnation c( the State-aided system. Sir Win. Houldsworib, M.P. for Manchester, said a (Committee of mcmi bers of Parliament had recommended tlip adoption of the co.nnmnal system, emigiants to H'ceive loans at the rate of 3 per cent , guaranteed by the Jm penal Government (or 30 )ears, and the colonies to donate lane 1 . Tins recommendation had been unfavourably leceived by A ictorw, New South VN ales, South Australia and Cape Colony, but other cuionies, sue \. <is Western Austialia and Natal, had fallen in with the suggestion. No replies had yet been received on the subject from the Dominion of Canada or New Zealand. Sir William mentioned that the scheme proposed had the support of a number u members of the House of Commons one bundled and thirty of a* horn arc pledged to its adoption.