The Colonial Conference.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43071, 21 March 1907, Page 3

The Colonial Conference.

(By Telegraph'—'Press Association.) LONDON, Yesterday. The Duke of Devonshire, addressing the Unionist Free Trade Club, said the Colonial Conference was safer In the hands of the Liberals than the Unionists, as the colonials could appreciate a clearly expressed policy, and there would be no chance of the misunderstanding which might have been, if, after three years of ‘, tariffite ” agitation the colonials found they had been summoned here simply to negotiate on the basis of existing duties, in which case they would have thought they had been brought here on a fool’s errand. In view of grave constitutional questions which were impending, he deplored the increasing recklessness and anarchy in the Unionists’ ranks. That it was their duty to unite was clear, considering the indirect attack on the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland, which was as dangerous as, or more dangerous than a direct attack.