VALUE OF FEDERATION.
INTERESTING SPEECHES. THE SECRET OP THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
Keceived 2nd, 11.42 p.m. I London, July 2. I Lord StrathcOna, presiding at a Do- ! minion Day banquet, said any little discontent that might attend the federation of South Africa, would give way to a feeling of nnity. What had been done in Canada and Australia was possible in South Africa and also in the West Jn« dia Islands.
| The Duke of Argyll described the Quebec tercentenary celebrations as an echo of the entente.' What was Canada after all, he asked, but a Franco-British Exhibition of the example of 140 years' successful friendship? Lord Dudley, responding to the toast of '-The Guests," said the secret of the British Empire was not the seareli for power in an aggressive sense, but the contentment of the people of the various nations of the Empire. Canada represented an alliance of the two great nations with a common end, namely, the uplifting and prosperity of the people.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 165, 3 July 1908, Page 3
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164VALUE OF FEDERATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 165, 3 July 1908, Page 3
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