Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Vol. 40: 1908-1909 Twenty-one years have passed away since I stood on this platform before a distinguished representative and imperial assembly to advocate imperial penny postage and cheap cablegrams. To-night I again appear before the Royal Colonial Institute, and without any wish to boast I think I may fairly ask you to recall the views I urged on that now distant occasion,* and to note to what extent the changes I then advocated have been accomplished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.