EDUCATION: PROPOSED IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME: COPY OF CORRESPONDENCE THAT HAS PASSED BETWEEN MR. P. A VAILE, OF LONDON, AND THE RIGHT HON. THE PRIME MINISTER RELATIVE THERETO.

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EDUCATION: PROPOSED IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME: COPY OF CORRESPONDENCE THAT HAS PASSED BETWEEN MR. P. A VAILE, OF LONDON, AND THE RIGHT HON. THE PRIME MINISTER RELATIVE THERETO.

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Dear Sib Joseph \\ led, London (the Press Club), 21st August, 1909, I bare to thank you vt i\ heart ih for your encouraging letter and for your promise to bring tuy Imperial Scholarship scheme before your parliamentary Education Committee. 1 rliil nm lose much time in using your letter. 1 left the Cecil at II p.m. Next morning there was a leader on you ami it in the evening papers with the largest circulation (outside ha'pennies), and now it is ploughing tin' seas t<> everj country where English is spoken i<> lei them know that once again you have been <|uick to encourage the Imperial sentiment. New Zealand may not hanker after giving £25,000j Inn she might, and I think should, give, say. two or more scholarships, oosting about 62,500 in all, ami give the holders free travelling on all railway-lines. You have already helped me, and again I thank you. This thing is the greatest or nothing. If you have time on your j -m-v, will you think it over/ ami. if you can «iitc tne anything encouraging or stimulating that I can use here, do so. I think you can trust me to use it in the best way. I am getting much encouragement. With best wishes for safe and pleasant voyage to you and yours, 1 am, &c, Sir Joseph Ward. K.C.M.G., P.C., Premier. New Zealand. P. A. Vaile. DiAB Mb. Vali.e,— London. 18th August, I!i09. With reference to your interview with me yesterday respecting the Imperial Scholarship scheme, I have perused your communication on the subject, and am very much impressed with your proposals. It is not possible for me to do anything in the direction desired at this end. hut I shall be glad upon my return to New Zealand to Urine the whole matter before the parliamentary Educational Committee for full consideration and report. With kind regards, yours, &c, I. A. Vaile. Esq., the Press Club. J. G. Ward. 6 and 7 Wine Office Court. Fleet Street, B.C. Deab Mr. Vaile,— London, 31st July, 1909, I am duly in receipt of your letter of the 31 si instant with reference to your desire to have an interview with me respecting the Imperial Scholarship scheme. It is not necessary for dm to Bay that I am in thorough sympathy with the objects of the undertaking J but. as I have already intimated, it is not possible for me to make an appointment with you on the matter until after the Defence Conference. The pressure is so great at the present moment that I have found it necessary to decline all appointments. With kind rogrards, yours, Ac, P. A. Vaile. Esq., the Press Club. J. G. Ward. 6 and 7 Wine Office Court. Fleet Street, EC.

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The Press Club. 6 and 7 Wine Office Court, Dbab Sib Jos—a Ward,—' Fleet Street. E.C., 30th July, 1909. You were good enough to say that you would go into m\ Imperial Scholarship scheme with me after the Defence Conference. It has just occurred to me that it would then be rather late for me to approach the other Premiers. If you consider the matter important wdl you give me an early appointment if possible 1 I am going into it with Lord Northcliffe now. and am expecting important developments soon. I should not trouble you, but time is getting short. Vims, ftc., P. A. Vaii.k. Press Club, Fleet Street, Hi:m,- Sib Joseph Ward,— London. E.C., 19th July. 1909. I wrote you n my Imperial Scholarship scheme, addressing my letter to catch you at Port Said. You have. loubt, read that letter. I am sending you herewith copy of a letter which appeared in the Evening Standard and Si. James* Gazette. The writer has slightly misunderstood my idea. It is wider than he thinks. Things seem to be progressing very quickly in connection with the scheme. I had a consultation with Mr. Hall-Jones about it. and he, with much foresight ami kindness, suggested that 1 should write YOU laying the present position before you briefly, so that you may understand it fully before you are caught up in the whirl of your London engagements. You have, of course, had the scheme, and have probably seen the reports of my interview with Lord Milne]-. lie sa \ s it is of'greater importance to the Empire than the Rhodes scheme. The day the article I sent you appeared, the first scholarship, of £1,306, was guaranteed. That, however, is a small matter. 1 can get the money I wan* in England without trouble, for they recognise now the magnitude of the idea, but I want it to come from New Zealand. I want New Zealand to Start it. Within the last year New Zealand has added £60,000 per annum, equal to interest on about £2,000,000 per annum, and has promised a two million-pound warship, with another if required a mere matter of a liability, assured and contingent, equal to a Capital of £6,000,000. Now. if we oan rightly ami joyfully do this and it was nobly done we need not shrink from a small liability which should go far to prevent the necessity for these great sums: for. properly carried out. it will put our Empire away from everything else unapproachable, unassailable. My suggestion is that, provided you agree with the idea generally held here of the scheme. New Zealand should offer, say. £25,000 to start it if the other States ami Dominions will come in on the same lines. It will lie another world-educating coup such as your splendid decision with regard to the Dreadnought. It was the moral effect the instantaneous, spontaneous speaking for a young and vigorous people by a man who knew the right thing to do. and who was bold enough to interpret his country's sentiment As you were backed up in that instance, so I believe would you l>c in this. Possibly some one of the States would not come in. In that case you could reconsider your decision, and make whatever offer you thought (it ; but 1 feel strongly that, if this thing is going to be the stupendous organization prophesied by those who ought to know, its lesson of Imperialism should be sent forth to the world with all dramatic I use the word advisedly—force and effect possible. If you had offered the Dreadnought a v th after yon did, the offer would have fallen "stone cold." It, was the sentiment. It showed the value of the children of the Empire. So I wanted to be with this. I have been engaged on it for four years. If it is right, who should first see it and show it my mother State, and how greater the force and effect if the States of the Empire start it! England must (and will willingly) come in then. I am hoping that soon after your arrival you will be able to give me an appointment, and that you will V able to make the announcement suggested by me shortly after, and to arrange if possible for the oversea Premiers to consider the proposal. I hope you will not think that I am importunate in this matter. I am putting it as plainly and clearly as 1 can. for I know its importance to the Empire, but I shall not try to persuade any one to come into this thing with me. As I told Lord Milner. if the thing is not good enough to bring the man in. T do not want him. T'nless it is great enough and good enough to bring you and New Zealand in, I do not want either. Nothing less is g 1 enough. It has to be great enough to attract and. having attracted. to inspire all those who will work for it. Tf I find it cannot do this, T shall not be with it very long : but I have no doubt. I shall hope to hear from you as soon as you can conveniently manage it. when T could explain anything about which you may be uncertain. On Mr. Hall-Jones's suggestion I am duplicating this letter and sending one to the Hotel Cecil. London, and the other to the P. and O. s.s. "China " to catch yon at Marseilles. I hope you will consider the importance of the subject and the position it has already taken in this country sufficient excuse for my troubling you with the matter. I am, tee., P. A. Vaile. Mi;. ValLß'b, IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIP ScHKMK. (To the Editor of the Evening Standard mnl Si. James's Gnzrttr.l Sir,— I was very pleased with "A New Zealand Editor's" able and sympathetic letter, and with his promise of active support on his return to the Dominion.

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He has, however, fallen into the error of thinking that I intend this scheme to be confined to university men. In dealing with Imperial matters, it seems to me that nothing but tin- broadest will do. There are no restrictions as to academic qualification. There are no cast iron rules about diplomas ami degrees. We want the men who can serve the Empire l«'st. irrespective of mere book-learning. "A New Zealand Editor" is correct in his statements about the Rhodes scholars. The fact is that the Rhodes scheme is a scheme tor the benefit of individuals rather than for the Empire. I fully appreciate ''A New Zealand Editor's" remarks about women being allowed lo take part in the scheme. Coining as I do from a land which places woman in her right position, it is but natural that I have had that in my mind. If a woman ran serve the Empire Utter than a man. surely she should have the opportunity. This, in my mind, follows so naturally that I should no t c state it than Ido that I require money to carry out this scheme. In .New Zealand our women have nobly borne a 11 us! most freely given, as women always will. They have shown US clearly what we never doubted — that woman's influence iii political life must make for good. The idea of " A New Zealand Editor " as to approaching the various Slates and Dominions of the Empire is good, and. as a matter of fact, is being acted on now. It is now certain that my scheme will lie in operation within a short time. It is four or five years since I started work on it. and I have, particularly recently, received the greatest encouragement and assistance. The time is absolutely ripe for putting it into active operation, and no time is to be lost in doing so. P. A. Vaii.k. Mn. Y.mlk's Imperial Scholarship Scheme. Sir, — (To tin- Editor of the Evening Standard nml Si. James's Gazette.) "Some such plan is certainly worth a trial, if we mean to make an end of baffling and hampering ignorance. It WOuld be the complement of the' labours of the Press Conference." The above extract from your Note in a recent issue in which you discuss ami favourably criticize Mr. P. A. Yaile's scheme for sending to the oversea dominions the brainiest products of the universities of the United Kingdom tempts me lo offer a few words of encouragement to its promoter, who, in my bumble .judgment, is proceeding on sounder lines than the author id' tinproposal for an exchange of university students within the Empire. The Rhodes Scholarship scheme was admittedly conceived in a spirit of broad Imperialism, its objective being to enable the very pick of the products of the colonial universities to proceed to Oxford, there to acquire the democratic air. literary tastes, ami aspirations of that ancient seat of learning, and thereafter to return to the land of their birth or adoption and spread among their own people the benefit of the liberal education that Oxford is able io impart. It was a magnificent conception; out is it likely to be wholly and entirely realised? There is every reason to believe that Oxford is receiving from the oversea dominions, as well as from the United States, the creim //, hi i/iiiii of the graduates of the universities of these countries, selected in all cases with scrupulous regard to the terms of Mr. Rhodes's will by impartial and independent selectors: but thus early in the operation of the scheme a barge proportion of I he Rhodes scholars are not likely to become men of light ami leading in their own countries, which apparently do not offer to them the attractions and emoluments of older lands. So [ai as nn own country (New Zealand) is concerned, il is true that the first of our Rhodes scholars (Mr. Thomson) on his return to the Dominion accepted a lectureship at Victoria College, Wellington: but the satisfaction over his decision was w\\ shortlived, because before he took up his work it was announced that he hail been offered and had accepted a more lucrative position in Australia. Another Rhodes scholar from New Zealand who has just gained his degrt f science with honours at I4.dp.sie is off to Rangoon, and lam told that our third scholar has already had his attention drawn to the possibilities id" the Indian Civil Service. Nobody can blame these young men, who have to make their way in an already overcrowded world, for seeking pastures that are likely to yield them at an early period of their careers the substantial realisation of their hopes: but if their example is to be generally followed, will the underlying principle of the Rhodes bequest be given effect to? On the other hand, if Mr. Yaile's scheme materialises, the "intellectuals" of the United Kingdom will be given an opportunity of studying on the ground the political, social, and educational problems that are being today grappled with and yet remain lo Im. solved by the oversea dominions. 1 purposely employ the phrase intellectuals'' because 1 trust that Mr. Vaile and those helping him to elaborate his scheme will not confine its benefits to oik' university, nor restrict them to one section of students. If hi' hopes to appeal to the colonies for monetary assist aiicc. as I naturally oonclude he intends doing at the psychological moment, he can only l>c success fill by demonstrating that the newer universities, as well as the two most ancient seats of learning in England, are included in his scheme, and that female as well as male graduates shall !*■ eligible for selection. There must be no bar of nationality or of sex. There are in Australia and New Zealand important economic issues to be settled which concern the welfare of our womanhood quite as much as the sterner sex, and the consideration of those problems by intellectual British women with open minds will l>e most helpful I would counsel Mr. Yaile, when he has worked out the details of his scheme to his own satisfaction, to lay them before the Prime Ministers of the several oversea dominions, and bespeak their support on purely Imperial grounds. Of late years the consolidated revenue of my own colony has been frequently and largely drawn upon in aid of projects that were thought to have a nexus witji Imperial consolidation, and on all these occasions the vote was awarded with such practical unanimity as to warrant me in saying that the average colonist is prepared to do his duty in strengthening the bonds of Empire on purely sentimental

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grounds. If my assertion be true, then ti priori the colonies will come cheerfully to the generous assistance of a scheme that possesses inherent merit the potentiality by educational means of the highest order of drawing the Britisher and the colonist closer together through the medium of brains. Lord Rosebery's dream of a legislative picnic, in order to insure a better acquaintance of the governed by those who for the nonce have to perform the task of governing the Empire, served its purpose —it gave point to an epoch-making speech : but when men regarded it from the standpoint of practicability it was generally recognised that it could never be accomplished. But Mr. Vaile has taken hold of the idea, and is using it to the greatest advantage. Send to us for, say, three years the ablest of your "intellectuals" (in this term I include not only the academic but the scientific), attach them for that time to the recognised universities of the oversea dominions, and let them come among us with a determination to view us and our difficulties impartially; and the net result of the operation of the scheme must be to remove mutual prejudices, to clear away mis understandings, to strengthen the Imperial tie, and, to adopt your own simile, to found "a true and wide Imperialism." What amount of money is needed to put the scheme on a sure basis I know not —Mr. Vaile has doubtless closely calculated the cost/and is prepared to state it; but I am confident that if the details are put clearly and squarely before the citizens of Greater Britain they will rise to the occasion, do the part required of them, and again demonstrate that their Imperialism is not founded on lip service, but is in their heart of hearts. Believing firmly as I do in the potentialities of Mr. Yaile's scheme, and feeling sure that its realisation will be of immense value in the upbuilding of the Empire, I gladly indorse it. and on my return to my own land shall use my voice and pen to bring its salient - features before my own people and to secure their adoption by them. A Nkw Zkm.anu Editor. htt'KuiAt, Scholarships, Shi, — (To the Editor of the Evening Standard and St. .hunts'* Gazette.) The Imperial Scholarship scheme, recently broached in your columns, strikes one as appealing to the imagination; but, like everything which appeals to that overworked faculty, it is based on a true instinct. Will you allow me, as one who has had a good deal of practical experience of education and theoretical experience of sociology, to refer to some points which the idea of the scheme suggests 1 No one but the hide-bound pedagogue or the Socialist " endeavourer " doubts that education to-day is a monstrous growth in the flesh of the social organism. The obsolete curriculum through which 80 per cent, of the upper and middle classes are pushed at school and college is a " rudimentary process" which drains or perverts the mental and moral development of its victims. It has no relation to the facts of life. The invaluable part of it—Greek thought—was long ago absorbed by western culture and science. To extract a few drops of this in each generation is unnecessary. The draught is only appreciated by dreamers, and it is bad even for them. Far better to bring up our youth on the sincere milk of reality, instead of on the condensed wisdom of the ancients. In the next place, there is the huge and unwieldly growth of elementary education, so-called. It has had many years of trial, and its results are ridiculous. It elevates an occasional "sport," 1 per cent, of the proletariat; by a process more clumsy and with an outlay far greater than are involved in that proverbially difficult feat —the conversion*of a Jew. And this at the expense of the ninety-and-nine persons whose usefulness and content as workmen and artisans is spoilt, to their own and their country's injury. In his address last year to the British Association, Professor Ridgeway emphasized this lesson of elementary Again, the majority of the middle-class schools are crippled by a scheme of "elementary scholarships," as futile in its results and as misguided in its aims as the scheme of old-age pensions. The whole system is fostering physical and mental degeneration. Its cost is enormous, and it grows. Thus, education, the most important concern of the State, bids fair to lead to national bankruptcy in credit, physique, and brain. Confine elementary education to the three Rs; cut down its ridiculous list of "subjects." and its enormous and costly machinery. A small outlay on a scheme such as that of Imperial Scholarships would have fifty time's more result for the individual and the Empire than the present, educational budget. The individual would receive the highest crown of education—initiation into living ideals as a preparation for living reality; the Empire would advance its own interests without wasting its money . A study of individual benefits might be expanded into pages. The best sociology of all times has had a similar method of completing the education of its lust subjects. The old systems of the " wanderjahr " ami the Grand Tour arecxamples from two strata of society. America has followed the latter custom, anil the colonies are beginning to do so. Greece and Rome hail a similar practice. The ideal man of the Creeks was one who " had seen the cities of many men and learned their thoughts." The present scheme will organize a well-tried instinct; it will combine the highest individualism with the highest Imperialism. ami should insert the thin end of the wedge of science in the widest meaning of that term into modern Anglo Saxon education. A. E. CItAWI.EY. \Koeniiuj StandaM ami SI. James's Gazette. 7th July, 1909.J Rhodes reversed. —A New Imperiai. Scheme. —By P. A. Vaile. The Rhodes Scholarship Trust has been in existence for some years, but it is too soon for any one to say with certainty what the effect of it will be. So far as it has gone at present the result has

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been to "-ather together young men from the lout coiners of the earth and to assemble them at Oxford. "Already this has proved a great thing for the individual. Its Imperial effect lias yet to be discovered. There are many who consider this a great Imperial scheme. It may be so, but to me n seems that exactly the converse of Cecil Khodes's scheme Would be of infinitely greater service to England and the Empire. Instead of gathering young men .if unformed character and ideas from amongst the nations of the world, 1 should choose able Englishmen from England, ami send them into every corner of the earth that is worth visiting; and let them carry their knowledge to those among whom they make their homes, and then bring or semi back to us here the information that they derive from moving amongst the people of the world, and particularly of the Empire. The overseas Briton sweeps the Imperial horizon, for his gaze is ever outward to his " home so far across the seas, ills eyes are upon it, and his heart is with his people there. The gaze ot the home-staying Briton is ever at his feet, where nothing new is. So, not unnaturally, it comes to pass that th« Australian, the Canadian, the Ncw-Zoalandcr, the South-African, takes perhaps a wider view of the power and purpose of Imperial union than do many who have never lived in the newer lands. We must send Englishmen but to live among the people of the Empire oi the world, it is true that nowadays travel is BO easy and cheap that many more people journey abroad than in the old, uncomfortable, and expensive times. Naturally we are gradually getting to know our Imperial possessions and our oversea relations better than we did; but most people who travel do so for pleasure, and do not stay long enough in one place to obi am any sound and useful knowledge of its characteristics, its inhabitants, its laws, or its customs. Nor, generally speaking, >yen if they did, would they have any means of communicating the result of their study and observation to those less fortunate ones who have to stay at home. There are only two ways of influencing thought widely, by writing or speaking. Now, of the Rhodes scholars who come up to us, but a very small proportion are naturally writers or speakers. Of that small proportion not all will follow the profession of writing or speaking, and, ot those who elect lo do so, but a very small number will ever earn the right to be heard in London—tor that takes much earning. So it seems that to serve the cause of imperial union best a man must be a writer or a speaker, an alert man and a thinker- not necessarily of high academic qualification. From men such as these —men whose characters are formed, and whose minds are sullieiently moulded to enable them to observe accurately, and to digest those observations intelligently—our Imperial Scholarship holders must be chosen. They will hold their scholarships for, say, the same period as .locs a Rhodes Scholar now, and upon the same financial conditions. They will go forth to their appointed or chosen land, to study their allotted subjects, with all the prestige of a great Imperial foundation behind them Iney will be welcomed upon the platform and in the Press. Every door will be open to them, be thenstudy social legislation in New Zealand, technical education in America, or the ways of life amongst the dominions of the Empire. They will spread by voice or pen among the people with whom they sojourn the message ot true Imperialism. They will earrv to their km across the sea the latest thought, the latest knowledge, the latest feeling that pours always to the heart and brain of the world—London. Ami in return they will absorb much of the fresher thought and strong virility of the new lands; tor the scales will fall from their eves, and they will see England as no man who does not know the Empire can see her—a land the worthiest te be loved, and fought for. and worked for of all the lands of the earth- a land for whom her children will pledge their last jewel and shed their last drop ot blood should the occasion ever arise—and that is not flag-wagging or melodrama, but just sober fact We might have to borrow the money from dear old John Bull : but he knows we would repay it We did borrow the blood from him, ami it is our duty to remember it, ami we do. 1 here is in surgery such a thing as transfusion of blood. For many, many years the Imperial dominions have drained old England of much of her best blood. It is time for some of it to flow back to the heart It is beginning to How. The Imperial sentiment is tingling in the veins oi England s children For all his alleged indifference there is no man on the face of the earth .pucker than the Englishman to respond to patriotic feeling when he knows that it is necessary, ll is necessary now, and there is little doubt as to what the response will be. The present ,s pregnant with issues of vast importance to the Empire. That Empire must no longer remain a series oi scattered units. By its bonds of steel beneath the ocean waves it must be drawn more closely together; by its intangible gossamer-steel bonds of mutual love and respect it must Ik- drawn more closely together : and this can only be fully accomplished by a wider knowledge oi each other. So when our Imperial Scholars have had time to settle down in the,, temporary homes they will send up each month or each quarter to the people at Home the results of their observations Thus we shall have a continuous stream of the thought of the Empire, expressed by those best able to do it, flowing to and from the heart of the world; and when the term of the scholarship has expired we shall have our speakers and writers h0,,,,' amongst us again, and in terms of their scholarships Bpeaking ami writing for a slated period throughout the dear old lam. And, again, each mans way will be easy, tor he will be hack with his own taperial-scholarship foundation ~;.,,„„, hill , ; /returned Imperial-scholarship holder, with something to tell, something to say o those lands across the sea-those wonderful, vast, beautiful possessions that are to so many but a class of men who know something of that vast and marvellous "concern," the British Empire, a "concern" that men who have never seen aught o mesume to meddle with; ay, indeed, so do many men who have never assisted to manage anything so big and complicated as a coal-yard. Thus in time it would not be necessary, as indeed ft is now, to follow Lord Rosebery's suggestion and send our legislators away to take even a fleeting glance at that wonder of the ages-thc Empire on which the sun never sets.

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I.N hll'EltlO. Once more in our columns Mr. P. A. Vaile returns to the charge, ami reiterates his enthusiast ie belief in the value of that Imperial Scholarship scheme which he first propounded in the columns of the Manchester Guardian. Now, as then, we should like to back his scheme with our appreciation of its very great possibilities. There ale, as we have said, points of possible disagreement In the details somewhat shadowy as these are as yet—of Mr. Vaile's plan, and we have commented on the difficulties which we see in the carrying-out of these large ideas. Hut we do believe that the Scheme is feasible, we do believe that it has the germ id' a true and wide Imperialism, and we cer tailily hope that a founder or founders pious enough to lend a name and money to the scheme will be discovered. Of course, there is now another Imperial Scholarship scheme in the field. Hut it differs essentially from this scheme. It is more academic and. in a sense, less Imperial. When Lord Rosebery spoke of sending our legislators round the Empire to learn something of it, he really indorsed the principle that underlies Mr. Vaile's ideas, ami he spoke very well and truly. Some such plan is certainly worth a trial if we mean to make an end id' baffling and hampering ignorance. It would be the complement of the labours of the Press Conference. Ami the cost should not be prohibitive. Are there not several millionaires at large in the Empire? Di:ah Mk. Vaii.e,— ' Wellington. 21st May. 1908. 1 am duly in receipt of your letter of the 14th January, in which you bring under my notice your scheme regarding Imperial Scholarships, and forwarding a copy of the Manchester Guardian and also a copy id' the London Standard containing articles in respect to your proposal. I may Say that I have read with very much interest the correspondence On the subject which you were so kind as to send to me. and can quite understand thai the scheme would tit in very well with the Rhodes Scholarship movement. I shall keep your communication before me. and have to thank you for your kindness in writing to me as you have done in the matter. Fours, iVc P. A. Vaile. Esq., the Press Club. .1. G. Ward. (i and 7 Win,' Office Court. Fleet SI reel. London. E.C. Tin' Press Club. <> and 7 Wine Office Court, Deab Sm Joseph Ward, Licet Street, I don. 8.C., 11th January, 1909. I send you a Manchester Guardian with my Imperial Scholarship article in it. also Evening Standard with a leader dealing with it. Since then, as you will probably have seen by the papers, I have had an interesting interview with Lord Milner. and now the matter is going before the Prince of Wales and perhaps the King. Lord Milner reckons my scheme would run hand in hand with llhodes's idea, and he assured me that he would be glad to work il and assist me in developing it. Before this reaches you we may have offered the first scholarship--for things are moving here. I have suggested that possibly some of the colonies would idler a scholarship or a series of scholarships. If the idea commends itself to you, might not New Zealand be the first dependency of England to put into practice this great iinperialising influence.' Please do not think lam trying to urge this. As 1 told Lord Milner. this thing must lie good enough to carry itself along. It could be done by cable if desired. There is enough in the article to show the lines of the scheme ; and I should semi the first scholar to New Zealand to study her legislation and life. Will you think of il. and pardon my troubling you.' but if it '.rocs it would never Ih> forgotten; if it doesn't il would. fours, ,Ye.. Sir Joseph Ward. X.C.M.C.. PreiiiierofNewZealai.il. P. A. Vaii.e. Approximate Coat o Paper.— Preparation, not Riven; printing (1,400 copies), Si 11b.

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