COLONIAL SUPPORT v. FOREIGN CENSURE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7372, 25 January 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

COLONIAL SUPPORT v. FOREIGN CENSURE.

To Lord Salisbury fell the task of proposing the Lord Mayor and the Corporation, and in the tail of his speech he made some remarks which are not likely to soothe those Continental critics whose wrath Mr. Chamberlain so recently aroused. Said the Premier: "It is no doubt true that just at this moment we have many enemies who are not very reticent in the expression of their opinion, but, on the other hand, we possess in the support of our distant kinsmen an approval and a sanction, which, to us, is worth infinitely more than all the contempt and all the censure which we may receive from other nations. (Cheers.) We cannot admit that they are the judge of our conduct, or that we can modify our proceedings in deference to their opinions. (Cheers.) What we look to is the opinion of those of our own kin who belong to our own Empire. We have received from all portions of that Empire an indication that we have lost nothing in the opinion which they hold either of 'our tenacity or the justice of our claims. We owe largely to Their Royal Hi,n nesses the summoning forth of th<'> expression of opinion at a critical time, and the Lord Mayor has rendered no light service in bringing that strong opinion before the world."

With the Lord Mayor's brief reply the proceedings ended, and somewhere in the neighbourhood of four o'clock the Royal party commenced their jjeturn to York House.