GKEAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



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* Not including the Kuria Muria islands, Mosha, Kamaran, and Keeling islands, the total area of which is less than one 

 hundred square miles. 



t Not including the Chatham islands, Norfolk island, and the islands of Auckland, Lord Howe, Caroline, Starbuck, Mai- 

 den, and Fanning. The natives of Australia, estimated at 55,000, and the Maoris of New Zealand, numbering 44,000, are not 

 included. 



$ Not including Whale Bay, Tristan da Ctmha, New Amsterdam, and St. Paul. 



lish Government and people to the objects 

 that they have at heart. A coolness arose 

 hetween the Dominion and the mother- country 

 on account of the protectionist policy for the 

 development of Canadian manufactures. The 

 Australians are now exasperated at the denial 

 of their annexation schemes. The inhabitants 

 of the British Antilles have a crying grievance 

 in the refusal by the home Government of aid 

 for their suffering sugar interest. The main 

 ground, however, for the desire of federal co- 

 operation, which has now become a demand, 



on the part of the colonies, is the fear that the 

 European relations of England will involve 

 her in wars in which they will be liable to at- 

 tack and conquest. The first resolution pre- 

 sented in the conference for imperial confed- 

 eration affirmed that "the political relations 

 between Great Britain and her colonies must 

 inevitably lead to ultimate federation or disin- 

 tegration," and that ''in order to avert the 

 latter and to secure the permanent unity of the 

 empire, some form of federation is indispen- 

 sable." This resolution was dropped at the 



