LORD KITCHENER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 8

LORD KITCHENER.

ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIS VISIT.' Arrangements have now been completed for the reception of Lord Kitchener in New Zealand, and for his tour through the Dominion. His Lordship will arrive at the Bluff on Thursday, 17th February, and be received by the Prime Minister (Sir Joseph Ward) and the members of the Defence Council, who will accompany him throughout his tour. After arrival he will proceed to Dunedin by train, and on Friday, the 18th, will inspect the harbour defences, garrison artillery, and the senior and junior cadets. The defence forces of the district will be brought into camp near Dunedin, and on Saturday they will be put through field exercises under the eye of the visitor, returning to their homes on the Sunday. On Monday, the Field Marshal will proceed by train to Christchurch, and on Tuesday he will, as at Dunedin, inspect the harbour defences and garrison artillery, and the cadets. The defence forces will be mobilised and put through field exercises on Wednesday, and tlie same night Lord Kitchener will leave for Wellington, reaching here on the Thursday morning. He will be accorded a civic reception by the Mayor, and entertained at a banquet by the Ministry, and on the following day will inspect the harbour defences, garrison artillery, and cadets. Tho defence forces will be mobilised that day, and will engage in field exercises on the following day (Saturday). On Monday the Field Marshal will leave by train for Auckland, where a similar programme will be gone through — on Tuesday, inspection of n defences, artillery, and cad-eti, and mobilisation of forces; on Wednesday, inspection of field exercises. Lord Kitchener will leave Auckland for Fiji on Thursday, 3rd March.