FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 167, 15 July 1914, Page 6

FRENCH NATIONAL FETE.

, .( ALLKRS AT TiHEiCraXsrUATK. j Tii.- large number .if. p. ~,,:,. who yes- j lerdav paid t.h-.-ir icspcvis t.. the Frem-a I ' o::-ul al Auckiaarit nil I lie ii.-e.it.iun j of the French National .l-'ctc. vv.is a pleading ics; iiiuuiv in the cordis I-tlv taf public feeling towards that Nation nnd to tin- popularity of In r representative here. Mr. Rigoreau. Anion" the callers vvvrc Ihe Mayor nf Auckland and Mr. J.-i'iin f-oitrt iDeputyMayor): ;'. Scegncr. Consul for fiermaTrv: O. A. StrcifT. Switzerland: •I. Vv'. Hall. Mexico; A, Millar. Ncthvrland,- and' Peru: .1. .1. Craig. \.'.hile: L. A. K.vheltfor. i'jS.A.: E. Ijaugguth. ..Vui-'i-rin -Hungary: R. Millar. Norway; TL fiees (ioorge. Port ii{,a.l; AY. A. Reddot* (Canadian Trade Ooamnieionerl: F. '\Kklaavrc (s-eeretaTy to the Aus.tro-H-ungaria'ii L'omsul): and about forty or tlfcy prnnrinrnt. citizent*. Tlie giirnn* eongrwtula.teil i lie Consul irpon thic occasion, and expressed gond vv'alics towatdrt the Republic. R-efer-e.nce wa- ma.lc to lhc friejiilly rHat'tons cxie-ting hrtivivcn ICnglaiu! and France, laud the hi.;.-.' ivan cxurcEwd. that the nntexato cordiale would loug be mainLiiincd, withj irmhino; to rl'ifiiturb the present happy state of afT-iim. Air. Rignienii ronrtrsolßtly ULinked his c.il!r-r» for the gomt ivishr.s. and asnid he was gi'ad: of the opp.otrunity of being able lo nay how vri-y much he appro" cinteri '.iie cordial rerrpajnn lie r.ml "n.-.-.-n ' given in th'r.-hoaiii'rfnl country. Ir. wns v pleaiflin" to meet, ratcii .-banning people in*- N>w Z-.M.lani|j<ri, ntui il w.w ilntrblv gnn.-tfjiug io l»c ac-urerl of tneir cordial regard for Ihe Frpiveh Republic. He Inis.ttvi t'nat l.!ie hfapy .relatione hc-l-weein fireui. Hriialn nn« his n \\n comiiry -wnti'.d Intvg ciaailmic,