COLONIAL PREMIERS' DOINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 21, 24 July 1897, Page 5

COLONIAL PREMIERS' DOINGS.

♦ MR. SEDDON'S RETURN TRIP, [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] London, 22nd July. The Right Hon Mr. Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, returns to the colony via Brindisi on Ist August. • The Right Hon. C. C. Kingston. Premier of South Australia, who has gone to Ireland to visit the birthplace of his father, near Cork, replying to an address of welcome presented by the Dublin Trades Councils, said Australia did not believe in Free Trade, and she was determined to exclude the wares of cheap and nasty labour aud nasty labourers. As to himself, he was delighted to find that the efforts of Australia to better the condition of the working classes were recognised at Home. He referred to the magnificent rivalry in the direction of democratic reforms between South Australia and New Zealand. Britishers, he said, with or without monej', would be welcomed to Australia, but they would not have the Eastern races at any price. The Bright Hon. Mr. Reid's visit to Port Sunlight was made the occasion of a great demonstration. In the course of his speech he said he had staked his political fortunes in order to induce New South Wales to emulate the policy which had made England great. If other nations were so mad as to try and exclude the abundance which God had provided it would be suicidal for England to imitate them. Great as England's territory now is it was probable that her territorial expansion was only in its infancy. Yesterday Mr. Reid left Liverpool for Sydney via America. An interviewer asked him for a final message to the English people. Mr, Reid replied, " Nearer and dearer ! " An Australian bystander thereupon asked for a message for the Australians. Mr. Reid instantly replied,. " Nearest and dearest 1"