Show 1 COLONIES Are Jealous of their right of self government london jandon april IS 18 an official abstract of wednesdays proceedings of the colonial premiers gives no idea of the trend of the discussion or the attl s tude of the different pre premi ersi on the N under discussion which wai was i a proposal to establish an imperial bouzi council counell with a permanent secretarial instead of the present system of periodical conferences several of the morning papers protest against this official secrecy notably the morning post which attributes it to a desire on the part of the colonial office to block any attempts to inake the conference permanent and insinuates that sir wilfrid laurier Laur ir the premier of canada is seconding the colonial office in this endeavor from unofficial sources it is lew learned ned that while new zm zealand land z and ind the cape colony support the australian proposal poat to make the conference permanent canada and the transvaal ol 01 oppose the creation of any imperial body which could usurp the functions of the governments of the self governing colonies and that the discussion was adjourned to enable lord elgin secretary tar y of state for the colonies to draft some sort of compromise between the conflicting views it may be taken for granted that the conference will not approve the creation of a permanent council having any executive or administrative powers |