IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
SO HEME NOT FAR DISTANT. ENGLISH PRESS EULOGISTIC. OF NEAV ZEALAND'S ISM(Received Ijast Niigiiu., 11.35 o'clock.) LONDON, May 21. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, addr.iisilnig the Victoria League, said tlhat the smallest difference made mien incapable of undei'istanding the lives of others. Nevertheless, lie believed that at no distant date the echeime of an Imperial' Parliament would be mia'bur.ed. whereby Britain unci the Dominions woald be united. The.' whole trend of events was to ibniing the isoattcred parts of the Empire closer. The Daily Telegraph says that New Zealand, by her latest act, had set the seal, car the Imperial ideal of one Empire, one flag, one Hcet._ The decision was of the sr.reato.st significance and promise. This splendid -act of (Sacrifice .was made by a people numbering Jess than the popu.ation of Liverpool or Manchester. It was the Dom'niion's .response to the renewed m nace to Britain's naval supremacv, though the "New Zealand" was built for' sea-v-v-e in the Pacific, and for the more immediate protection of New Zealand. ' „ The Express also .refers' to New Zealand's patriotic action.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 22 May 1912, Page 5
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182IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 22 May 1912, Page 5
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