4th inst. in the Chamber of Commerce Room, City Hall, Mr. J. W. Jones delivered a lecture on Imperial Federation. He went very thoroughly into the subject in the time at his disposal, and endeavoured to show, by quoting other great changes of the kind, that this movement could be evolved without any violent changes, and that it would eventually come about quietly by the drawing together of the interests of the colonies with the mother country. Meantime he thought that the granting of colonial peerages and the encouragement of conferences of colonial delegates would tend to promote the growth of the movement. The Chief Justice, who was in the Chair, concurred in the lecturer's views, and said there was no reason why there should not be a Duke of Kowloon. He proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Jones, which was heartily accorded.
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