IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10245, 23 May 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.

THE CABLE SERVICE. ,

(Received Last Night, 11.40 o'clock.)

LONDON, May 22,

Tine Times' Ottawa correspondent reporte that Canadians believe that the Imperial Conference will settle the question of a State-owneH cable between Canada and the Motherland. Si- Wilfrid Laurier, with the co-op-eration of Australia and New Zealand, who ,are interested equally with Canada, is expected to bring the matter to a successful conclusion. The ownership of all the leading cables is passing into foreign, control. This will make a strong additional reason. It is not ibeleived here by those in control of the British Post Offices that these, foreign-owned cables can be more than nominal. PAST AND PRESENT. A RETROSPECT. Received This Morning, 12.15 o'clock LONDON, May 22. The Daily Telegraph, in a leading article retrospect of the personalties of the past and present Imperial Conference, says that Sir WiSrid Laurier will renew friendship.. They would find Sir Joseph Ward still spaaMng manfully, and sturdily for the smallest, but, perhaps, the most enthusiastic and intemsely British of all the Dominions. General Botha would be representing United South Atfrioa. The Hon. A. ■ Fisher, Australian Prime :55nister, was a newcomer, and because be was a newcomer, and at the head of a Labour Party y which won such a sweeping victory- at th? last elections, there would be a great curiosity to see how he ranges himself'aanong his brother Premiers, but it was certain that his Imperialism was no less sincere than the Hon. A. Deakin'is, even, if his methods were different.

After mentioning Newfoundland, , th© paper adds: "Ml the members- of tin© Conference are equally welcomed by the people of the ' Motiberliaind. Thy oome eager to do their Ibeslt for tlhe young nationalities and the Empire alike. But everything points to the prospect of there being no great experiments, and the Imperial framework mil remain, much the same aftber the Conference as it is, now. Pull and free dissuasion on Sir . Joseph Ward's and the other Domiin- j ions' proposals should, however, be most informative, enabling one to judge the (prospects of an early or ultimate agreement on the great problems. It is encouraging to see that the Imperial Government is prepared to discuss. Labour exchanges and the relations of the Dominions, Its credit was involved' upon its having devised, an acceptable /scheme. In the meantime all limperialists, irrcsp.eotive of party, .earnestly hope that the Conference will ad.vance smoothly to a successful-, and prosperous issue.