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Show I IMPERIAL CONFERENCE ENDS j" RESULTS A DISAPPOINTMENT s,. , ' Visiting Premiers Have Eaten Many Dinners In London Town, Out do P Little Business. I London. Tbo lmpcriul coufcronco wound up Tuesday, and If tho attending attend-ing colonial premiers spoko out their feelings to tho public no they did to their acquaintances, they would call it a failure. A moro dojected group of statesmen seldom has been Been. Coming with high hopes of a preferential trade scheme and elaborate programs fot Imperialistic legislation, thoy have succeeded in pressing upon the government gov-ernment only a few minor projects. The popular Interest In tho gathering, gather-ing, which at first was widespread, dwindled steadily until nt tho end tin) doings of tho conforonco have been slven but a secondary place in tho h- press. Socially tho conference was n groat success, and tho visiting pro mlcrs have eaten many dinners. Sir Wilfrid Lnurlor, the Canadian premier, supported tho government nt 1 every stage of tho opposition to prefer "V ' cntlal trade, and as n result ho has bo r como unpopular with his colleague Alfred DoaUIn, premier bf Australia lost no chunco of proclaiming tho Jnp ancso monaco to Australia's vital prob lem. Sir Robert nond, premier of Now-v Now-v foundland, brought tho Newfoundland jj- fishery question beforo tho conference R Ho pleaded against a modus vlvendl -with tho United States, but tho Earl f of Elgin implied that tho government k was unable to do anything, whereupon i " Sir Robert mado a vehoment protost. |