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Printed for the use of the Colonial Office.

Miscellaneous,

No. 102.

OTTAWA CONFERENCE, 1894.

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O. 885

Reference :-

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Despatch to the Governor-General of Canada, the Governors of the Australasian Colonies (except Western Australia), and the Governor of the Cape.

Downing Street,

June 28, 1895.

In my despatch of the 13th of December last

I transmitted to you copies of the Report of the Earl of Jersey, G.C.M.G., on the proceedings at the Colonial Conference at Ottawa, together with copies of the proceedings of the Conference.

2. Since then the questions discussed at the Conference have been under the consideration of the various Departinents specially concerned, and I am now in a position to place you in possession of the general views of Her Majesty's Government on the questions which formed the subject of the three Resolutions classed together by Lord Jersey as dealing with trade relations.

3. The first two of these Resolutions have for their object the repeal of legislation and the cancelling of treaty stipulations which, in the opinion of the Dele- gates, obstruct the realisation of the policy indicated in the third Resolution, and it may be convenient that I should in the first instance explain the views of Her Majesty's Government with regard to that policy before discussing the first two Resolutions.

4. The third Resolution declares that: "Whereas "the stability and progress of the British Empire

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can be best assured by drawing continually closer

"the bonds that unite the Colonies with the Mother

"Country, and by the continuous growth of a

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practical sympathy and co-operation in all that

pertains to the common welfare:

"And whereas this co-operation and unity can "in no way be more effectually promoted than by

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