EMPIRE PRESS DINNER.

Evening Star, Issue 14637, 5 August 1911, Page 10

EMPIRE PRESS DINNER.

OVERSEA JOURNALISTS EXTER--1 MS Eli. [FiiCM Ora i-rioi.if. Cop.p.kspokdkxt.] I.OXDOX. Juno 23. Among the New £rakiiifi jouruah.-is at the. dinner ;7!vrn by the Kn::H?a Pre<? on Safur'!rf.v ru<-ht 10 th*> vi.s!tir.;>' I'wsmcn from Greater ft-rititir. were. Mr A. ,f. IH.tYhwny rlliajo Daily Time-,'), .Mr IT. G. K. tdak'i G'j'.meri-iijn ■ Evening rilandard v ). Mr T. i\. Bisick (JlUiincvii-ke ' Advo<-:tt.-> ">. Mr .1. H. Doiaiaoio (Mauiura " "i, Mr R. O. Horror- :'N« Zealand Herald '), Mr Iv. X. Armif i'VVo:iin<;roti ' I'oM •';. Mrs I-'. Carr Eol-k-tt f'Aiv-klnndi. Sir Jo-rt>h Ward ?nt at the fop tr.M'?, between Mr T. ,}'. O'Connor. ME'., and Air Krnue-dy .Jo:i<v. of the 'Daily Mail." Mr A. E. G. Klu-dei, a djre--i»or of lh.« C'hi-ist.rhurch ' I'rcfs. 1 was also at. the top :ab!e. Tito Now Zealand I'rrsr was rrpvesr-utcd by Mr li. IS. Brett. Lord Jjurnhum. the cloven of ihc l-'tjjr'isli rr;\:>. prc.r.ided. I:ie wekomrd the guct-.ts ill a speech in which be recalled that two years i'.'<; lie addressed a similar assembly. Borne of :'.t! ; " present- v-we that j.';'.thtriti'.j. Lord Bmnhaiii combined: "The work dono lit thi-i time olid firir-c, by iho journalistic tvlmmi.-'.raiicn of the Empire- Prr*.* has been iiicst valuable. it has inc-hickd imo-jrtant (.-one. -:-sions made by cable coin panic.-, in tho rate* oil telegraphing news between Great i'otc.hi airi ifjo Overseas Dominions, a far i;:o::- eupp'y of new?: to thepapers i'l India., South Africa, and Ausualaaia. by anansremrnt bfiavee-ii tho Eastern and Eastern Extension Telegraph Companies, K<-t----iug in conjunction with Router's' Tekt'iam C'c"'ij'.n'y, a reduction in rat-.'' iirtitcn Great, •!•■;•.ii:i and the Straits Settlements, and various smaller tu:der-;f'in<!ni<,'s of n juiiturdl.y beneficial nature-." .Halting a pica for Imperial unity. Lord .Bun-hum said: "There certainly tan be unity of ideals, of 153-111-pathiti. and of effort. .Surely \va tun eiretch hands across the sen ai:J *ay to men in every p-.ivt of the Empire: ' Your ideals of self-::;<vr-njmcm, of international honor, of social justice, of ordered progress i'.re our idea!.-, aiici those are bmds. which distance cannot weaken and time nut never impair.* " Lord Curzon proposed the toast " Our Gupsis." Ho said he believed the Press of the Overseas Dominions rcprespntcd a high and incrcasin? ftandard• sf excellence If was sirotijj.y imbued with file Imperial spirit, and if ttproduccd all tfiei best traditions of tho Mothor Land from which it sprang. He feit that ho ought almost in apologise (o their visitors for tho appearance new presented by thp mtdropoli--. lie. did not know whether to compara it, with the. r.t.ato of a city under f.iege or a patient in splints, but whatever its ar»peara-iice uow tho capital of the Empire would present- on Thursday an Appearance (hat neither Babylon in its Fplendor, uor Roma fn its pride could ever btivoi presented. Their fruesw -were here to take pari in ancl describo to those in distant parts of the .Empire one of the great landmarks in the history of th« British people. Was iJio Imperial idea, which they were here not only to celebrate but to propagate, making progress? He had no hesitation, as far as this count.y was concerned, in answering that quest.on in the affirmative. To his mind the progress marked by th« present lirjpsnal Conference was great and substantial and genuine. It represented progress toward.; that ideal of pome closer form of organic unity covering tho wlioie field of Imperial policy'and relations which most of.tlic-m had itt mind. Mr Geoffrey IE- Fairfax, of. Srdnr-y, leplictl to llic toruil.