PREMIER INTERVIEWED

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 61, 4 October 1905, Page 4

PREMIER INTERVIEWED

' ' < trap*"' f'rp.H-i Association <) .i> r;>- § t Christchurch, October 2. The Premier, who pas-ed through town last night on a journey from Dunedin to Wellington, stated in an | interview that no definite Btep3 had yet been taken in reference to the continuance of the South African subsidised steam service. He had been informed at Dunedin that as the war supplies were now finished in South Africa and things had reached their normal level, large importations into that country could be looked forward to. Referring to the Anglo Japanese Treaty, Mr Seddon said that New Zealanders would respect Japan so long as she remained within ho zone and New Zealand got what was in our zone. He also stated that no steps had yet been taken to invito a member of the Royal Family to be present at the opening ceremony of the Exhibition. The matter was yet premature He could give no information as to whether exhibits from foreign countries would be on a large ecale.