HONOURS FOR WARD.
;BRILLI ANT, : FIN ANCING.
MORE; AUSTRALIAN TESTIMONY.
"; . . Adelaide, this day. The "South .Australian Register" is crediting Mr Ward with'brilliant financing. It says it is no light thing for. him to be able to Bay thab in the year immediately succeeding fche'ono in which South Australia consented to pay the English capitalist £3; 16s per cenb. interest) on a small loan, New Zealand borrowed a much larger sum. ab aboub £3 ss. He is entitled to: the thanks of all the colonies for his triumphant demonstration of the gains which may be secured from boldness and self-confidence, and his name should be mentioned with the respect due to fchd colonial statesman who inaugurated an epoch of three per cents., and did so almost directly after the monetary magnates of the world's metropolis declared that'even three and a-half per cenbs. musb be discarded in favour,ot four per cents. As success begets success, ib is nob surprising to hear of a general acceptance of his conversion scheme. "
London, May 8.
Lady Ripon presented Mrs Ward and Mrs Montague Nelson at the Queen's drawing-room.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 10 May 1895, Page 3
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183HONOURS FOR WARD. Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 111, 10 May 1895, Page 3
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