ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 103, 3 May 1902, Page 3

ROYAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

ANNUM. DINNKB. PEtt PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, May 1. The Roysl Colonial Institute dinner was held to-day, there being 220 guest", including a number of Australian exGovernors, the Agents-General, and rominent colonials. Earl G'ey, who presided, recommended the creation of an order of membership in connection with the Institute, the members to be styled as associates, so as to enlist wider sympathies, especially of Brtisans, on behalf of the u»"'o?\ and development of the Empire. Ha predicted that thus they could raise annually «100,000, to be. applied to the collection and diffusion of information which is of value to statesmen and citizens. He hoped the conference of Premiers would not separata without paving the way for Imperial Federation, even if it involved seme material sacrifice on the part of both the Motherland and the colonies. Mr Oopeland, New South Wal Agont-General, suggest*d that encb • f the Prince of WaW children shou'd b°ar a princely title, associating Roy 1 y throjgh 'he first child with Canada, the K'cond with Australia, the third •Lb New Zealand, at?d the fourth with Mouth Africa. Admirsl Seymour paid a tribute *o the naval contingent sent with th«> gunboat Protector by South Australia te China. Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Rundie commented on the work of thr colonial contingent, saying as a result, of the war the British Army and colonial contingents would ever recognise the bond of comradeship.