VISIT TO GLASGOW.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 300, 23 June 1909, Page 5

VISIT TO GLASGOW.

LONDON, yesterday. The Colonial* Press delegates were tho guests? <5f the ' Glasgow Corporation. The weather was rainy. They inspected* t|rt> .'NoVfh* British locomotive works, employing 8000 hands, and then joined the ladies on a steamer trip on the Clyde. The Lord Provost and many Glasgow notabilities were aboard. They visited the Fairfield < yards. The Australians, witli Captain Collins, boarded the Australian destroyer,, and, standing on the keel cheered their future navy. Continuing the cruise, the delegates viewed tlie Clyde yachting carnival at Rothesay. At the University in the afternoon, A 7 ice-Ghancellor Macalister conferred degrees on six of the delegates attired in scarlet robes. " • Lord Bute said .that the presence of so large a gathering was a tribute rendered to the British press throughout the world. Mr Macdonald (Toronto) thanked the University. In the evening, a Corporation dinner was held ih. the City' Chambers. ~—^~^~ * (Received this day, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, yesterday. The press Melega'ies^ after visiting Trossach's, procffi ded to: Edinburgh.