PREMIER'S RETURN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 46, 23 August 1911, Page 7

PREMIER'S RETURN.

The Management CommiUee, of th« Now 2eaiaftd Club ha* forwarded 4 wireloSfl message to th« Rua-pehu inviting Sir Joseph Ward and Sir John Fifld^ hy to luncheon on Tuesday next. The Pablic Reception Committee has act y«t been *bk to get into communication by wirolew -with the stewner, and at> tnefe w uncertainty aa to her hoar of amvftl on Friday, it is probable fchst some alteration will haw to be jn*d6 with the intended arrangement*, Tf tho steamer dow not roach the harbour until late in the evening, tfietfe will not be time to hold a public reception, and the home-coming function will then be restricted to a banquet, which will be held in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall.

By a, concert held last night on board tho Mooraki, which arrived from Syd» Aey Mtk morning, the Shipwrecked ! AJarinaw' fund will benefit to the exteitt of several pouads. The West A«s- 1 traiiar Loagtie Band contributed to the programme, and the chair was oecnpkd j by Mr. Baker, American Consul at Hohart, who is a. passenger to Wellington,. All things oonsiderexi the trip was a o«Hghf<fal one, perfect weather, to the aocotnpafrimetti o* Aiaooth seas, prevaiiifig on fS© whole of the run across. A detnoaiitfrtiiofi of paper.pag flookißff will ba given ia »b- Augastine'a ( Hall, Petone, to-fno*ro*r evening, and in Sfc. Jamata Hall, Lower Hurt, on Friday evenittg, by Mrs. GHefinen. All old boye of the Wellington College iflteifestod ,in swimming are notified by advertisement in ttiia i«s«« of a ttteeting to fee held in Bethuno's Attcken Rooms lO'ffiorfow evening at 8 o'clock, A meeting of *he Wellingtoa Aeopun^ ants' Studeflto* Society « beiog held th*. flYetliflS. . :