COLONIALS IN LONDON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 June 1902, Page 3

COLONIALS IN LONDON.

SOUfH AFRICAN I INNER. GREAT SPEECH BY MR BARTON. PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 22, 4.50 p.m. London, June 21. At: the-South Africm Association's dincer tj (he Premiers, litld »t the Ttoeadero, Lrd Windsor presided. ! Mr Barton, responding for the gilds's, svid the E npire had traversed a tiuae of great trial and torturing suspense. It was worth while giving a good deal to have the war at an end b.fore the King was crowned. The farms of piace wera cbivjlrous—such as no other na'ion, after such a struggle, cju'd have given—still they wfra Eot too costly, bacause bes : dei buying piace thev hid gained fot us the go:dwill rf the cmquered pwple. He believed that all who had assisted the | Empire hid done so to th« brst of their ability. Canadians, Australiins, I and the heroic sens of Ssuth Africa J would s\y we had fought a magnificently b ava foe, fighting according to his lights a conscientious li:ht, and be was de-ei ving of the treatment new msted out to liim, which he !may be expeet;d to appreciate. I Regarding the suspnusion of the Cape ! C'orsitu'ion Mr Barton wculd only say, wMiout attempting to trench or) domestic cnc.ms, - that tl'e colony being onre freo i's institutions wero given to the people. Suspension, even I for a d«y, woula ba a dangerous fx ;pariment, and only to be ucder'aken certainly when no other course succeeds. Speaking of tha Imperial Conference, whether a distiiic 1 : agr.ement I resul e 1 or not, the federation of the I Empire depends on relationship. Besides b'ood there must be absolute affection, as in a hrothnrhood of n<*ti' ns ' —» unim w< ich, wi'ho'it. parchm nt and without fo'mViT, must l*st for ever. "I m» Austra'im collfiagu s," Mr in t>e 'erm 'na'innhoo'' as appl :o d tr» Aui'ralia, I believe in a Canadian nation, fin Australian ration, and a South African natiw. Tli9 strength of an Empirs lips in a brotherhood of nations of the «ame s'oc'f, When you hear the Commonweal h somewhat irri'icisod on account of some of h c r legislation, I ask vu to remember ore of the strokes'; feelinas we have there. We mean to m*in f ftin thit continent as far as for Bri'fah blood." (Cheers.) "If my friend Mr Seddon here is urable 'o express more heartily than mvfelf whflth'r we live io Australia, South Africa, or elsewhere, the war has supplied unwr'tten arguments for the making of the continuity of the Empire an indestructible fact." MR srcnnoN. Received 22, ",17 p.m. London, June 21. Mr S ddon dinel yi sterday at Mr j Ch im':et lain's residence.