MILNER ENTERTAINED.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 126, 29 May 1901, Page 5

MILNER ENTERTAINED.

HIS VIEWS ON THE WAR

LONDON, May 27

Mr Chamberlain entertained the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Salisbury, lady Gwendoline Cecil, Lord and Lady Eoberts, and the Ministers and their wives, at a private luncheon on Saturday to meet Lord Milner. Although the Liberal leaders were invited* Sir H. H. Fowler alone was present. ~ Mi- Chamberlain, in proposing Lord

MiLaer's health, described the nation's unabated confidence in his impartiality and courage, and predicted success in the more arduous task before him of establishing the machinery which would unite and reconcile the two races; 'thusOaying'.broad and deep the foundations of a United South Africa, as free, prosperous, nnd

loyal as.Canada and Australia. Lord Milner, in replying, acknowledged the timely and indispensable support the Government had always extended to him, and the splendid devotion of the Dutch loyalists. He

laughed at the tation in some quarters that his holiday veiled his recall. He continued: \We are reaching the predestined end. What had sustained him on the weary road was the absolute and unshakable conviction that it was the onl£ one vre could travel. We might have peace by self-effacement, but could , not have held our own by any other methods than those ,we were compelled to adopt. He did not know whether to laugh or cry, while Jistening to Utopian' dogmatising. It only required a little more time and patience and meekness —a little more . of those gentle virtues whereof he knew himself conspicuously devoid— in order to conciliate panoplied hatred, incensate ambition, and invincible ignorance. There was room for I gentle statesmanship, provided it V did not mar the conclusiveness of the final scenes of the present drama. I Lord Milner takes the title of Lord Milner of Capetown. f ;■■ LONDON,' May 28. Lord Milner's speech has caused 'exhilaration amongst the loyalists in South Africa, many of whom, owing to Botha's expressed dislike for Lord ,- Milner, feared that his absence would ', he indefinite. '