EMPIRE DELEGATES.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 293, 10 December 1910, Page 5

EMPIRE DELEGATES.

TRIUMPH OF THE UNION. THE BTJRIAIi OF RACIALISM. (By; Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, December 9. Mr. Fisher (Prime Minister of Australia) and Mr. Fowlds (Minister for Education in New Zealand), who were delegates to the opening of the Union Parliament, and who leave to-day on their homeward journey, gave a farewell dinner last night to prominent South Africans. lord Gladstone (Governor-General), Lady Gladstone, and Lord de Villiers (Chief Juetice) were present, and there was a representative gathering. Lord Gladstone said he had been only too glad to show the visitors from. Australia and New Zealand all the attention they deserved as distinguished representatives of their dominions. J Mr. Fisher, in proposing the toast of "The Union of South Africa," referred to the triumph achieved in creating the Union, and to the interest Australia and New Zealand took in South Africa's national question. He returned thanks for the boundless kindness shown to Mr. Fowlds and himself in South Africa. General Hertzog, representing General Botha, declared that no toast could be 1 more welcomed in South Africa than that of their vistors. He dwelt on the need for the unification of the two races, and paid a tribute to the magnanimity of the British. MINISTERS' SALARIES. (Received 11 a.m.) CAPETOWN, December 9. The Union Chamber rejected a propossal to reduce the Premier's salary from £4000 to £3500, and other Ministers from £3000 to £2500. fir. Jameson stated it was not really reducing salaries, but creating them. He contended that the Government's proposal was a reckless use of State funds.