ENTERTAINING THE DELEGATES.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 290, 11 June 1909, Page 5

ENTERTAINING THE DELEGATES.

(Received this day, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. While the delegates were at Mansion House, the Victoria League entertained the ladies at luncheon at Hyde Park Hotel. , Countesses Jersey and Crewe, the Ladies Beaconsfield and Northcote, Miss Balfour, Mrs Harcourt, Mrs Lyttelton, Gladstone, and Austen •Chamberlain were the hostesses. The Labor -party entertained the delegates at tea on the terrace at the House of Commons. There were no speeches. / Later, the .delegates and ladies m<> tored to. the Ranelagh Club, where Mrs Pearson banquetted them. Mr Pearson, who has done much in organising the conference, was absent, owing to an. operation to his «yes. • . 'The beautiful grounds were illuminated. ' : ! Newspapers of every party continue to ' devote columns to the conference- leaders daily. : Many of the delegates are anxious to restrict to-day's discussion to. literature, in order to continue the Imperial defence debate. The Daily Mail comments on the astonishing: . unanimity displayed at the conference upon the navy, though the subject is fraught with all the elements of political controversy. Sir , Edward Grey agrees with Lord Rosebery, and Mr Balfour with Sir Edward' Grey, and Mr Haldane with Mr Balfour.