COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME

Hastings Standard, Issue 381, 24 July 1897, Page 2

COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME

MR KINGSTON VISITS IRELAND MR RE ID HAS A GREAT RECEPTION AT PORT SUNLIGHT. MR RE ID LEAVES FOR SYDNEY. (I\t Press Association.—Copyri;/fit.) London, July 23. Mr C. C. Kingston (South Australia) who has gone to Ireland on a visit to the birthplace of his father, near Cork, replying to an address of welcome presented by the Dublin Trades Council, said Australia did not believe in Freetrade ; she was determined to exclude the wares of cheap and narty labor, and the nasty laborer himself. He was delighted to find that the effort of Australia to better the condition of the working classes was recognised at Home. He referred to the magnificent rivalry in the direction of Democratic reforms between South Australia and New Zealand. Britishers with or without money would be welcomed to Australia, but they would not have Eastern races at any price. Mr Reid's visit to Port Sunlight was made the occasion of a great demonstration. In the course of his speech he said that 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 to 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 territorial expansion was only in its infancy. Mr Reid left Liverpool yesterday for Sydney via America. An interviewer asked him for a final message to the Ei/glish people, and Mr Reid replied " Nearer and An Australian rncmTpoi) asked for a message for Australasia, and Mr Reid instantly replied, " Nearest and dearest."