MR CHAMBERLAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1903, Page 3

MR CHAMBERLAIN.

RECEPTION RY THE CITY Off LONDON, PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received 22, 4 50 p m. London, March 21. Mr Chamberlain was tbe guest ofi the Lor don Corporation at the Guildhall, where be received a prinre'yj ovation from Ministers, A gents-Genera), I and many leading notabilities. In responding to the Corporation's address, he repeated tbe predictions' made at his previous vis-it to thi Guildball, and said the contest between pro- \ gressive-and retrograde civilization had been finallv decided, the field new being e'ear for the working of these na f ural forces which tended to unite kindred faces, It was rot fcr supremacy we contended, paid Mr Chamberlain, but for poli'ical equality, which we are as ready to concede ss we were formerly eager to gain. He urged a continuity of the na'ional policy cf firmness and sympathy.

NEW CONCEPTION OF EMPIRE. COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS AND BACRIFIOEB. TEXT FOR POLITICAL GOSPEL MISSION. Received 22 450 p.m. London, March 21. Responding to the of his health afc the luncheon at the M-uision Housp, Mr Chamberlain said the new conception of the Emp'Ve was a voluntnry oiganisation bas<d on community of interests and eac ifices. This must he

infus d into the Colonies and this Gospel must be preached in colonial pulpits. A wori-'o employment might be found for Snrretaues of State than tramping the gl it e preicHng the d-c----t-ine cf the Empire's Imperial Mission, Mr Palfour said the South African tour wss Mr Ghnmberhin's own conception, and he jistly deserved th« blessing pronounced on peacemakers.