THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1829, 15 December 1888, Page 4

THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE.

London, Dee. 12. j At a meeting of the Colonial Institute yesterday the Hon. W. Giiborne, speaking on the inbjeefc of. colonisation, said; that colonising and the foreign polioy of Great Britain were to interwoven with colonial inieroits that it. was impossible she oould lose night of the latter; -'He instanced the eolatiiietion of New Zealand and South Australia ae example*; of the sucoen which jad attended Imperial eolonial aided emigration. The Karl of Meath advoonted a communal eyitem of emigration with imperially guaranteed loans. Sir Charles Tapper referring to the question of Imperial federation, said it was a grand but impraptio. able soheme. Sir Juliui Vogel pointed to reeenl; events at ihowing that the colonial connection was precarioui, and he expressed the opinion that Imperial federation of a national and aggwisivecharacfcer could only be a practical ■yetem if maintained by force. In the event of! won federation he thought it would be neoesiary to establish an Imperial Council for the disoussion of questions in which the colonies were concerned,, It wm out of the question ti admit the possibility of England allowing a single colony to secede from the Imprie'. connection. On the subject of emigration Sir Julius spoke at length in condemnation of the state-aided system. Sir William Holdsworth, member or Parliament for Manchester, said that a committee of members of Parliament had recommended the adoption of the communal STStsm, Emigrants were to receive loans at the r»te of 3 per cent guaranteed by the Imperial Government for thirty^ years, and the colonies were ?to ; donate land. This recommendation had unfavorably received by Viotorie, New South Wales, South Australia, and Cape Colony; but the oolonies of Western Australia and Natal had fallen in with the suggestion. No-reply had yet been reoeived on the subject from the Dominion of Canada or New Zealand. Vu William said that the Boheme, proposed had the support of members of the House of Commons; one hundred and thirty of whom were' pledged to its adoption. : [