THE IMPERIAL IDEA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 254, 2 December 1909, Page 2

THE IMPERIAL IDEA

MOTHERLAND AND HER I'ObSWJSiONS. directing tiieoverflow of population. 10 thbTcolonies. By Cable.—Press Association.-CoyyrigJlt London, November 3ft Lord Northcote, speaking at the D»vonian dinner, said both parties had firmly determined to bo drawn .n closer by a bond of union between Urltain and the overseas possessions. Ihe Colonial OfTice, he said,, must rigidly and (sedulously abstain i-Jin anything in the nature of interference. England, he declared, was overcrowded and it was the duty of future statesmen to direct the overflow 'a pupriatfon towards tho great fertile spaces of Canada, Australia, New /.. - land and South Africa, which .vere awvting development. He added that the increasing greatness or decline of the empire might depend upon by nlioiu the dominions were peopled.

COLONIES SERVICE TO THE EMPIRE. London, Nov. mb«r 30. Colonel Seely, Un J'.'Secretary at State for the Colonies, wlie? presiding at a complimentary banquet to the Hon. J. \V. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, declared that all in the Colonial Office recognised the great services to the Empire rendered by the representatives ot the colonies. The Hon. Taverner referred to to* good ell'ects of Sir Charles Lucks' visit to Australasia, of the recent Imperial Conferences here, and of the Empire Chambers of Commerce in Australia.

Lord Ranfurly, ex-Governor of New Zealand, replying to the toast of the Empire, said that in all the colonics thi people were even mora loyal to tie Crown than dwellers in the Motherland. He instanced New Zealand at leadiog the way with a Dreadnought, aad instanced other States doing all In their power to increase the navy.