MORE ENTERTAINMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 140, 11 June 1909, Page 5

MORE ENTERTAINMENTS.

(Received June 11. 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. While the delegates were at the Mansion House the Victoria League entertained the ladies of the visiting party at luncheon in the Hyde Park Hotel/ the Countesses of Jersey and Crewe, Ladies Beaconsfield and Northcote, Miss Balfour, and Mesdames Harcourt, Lyttelton, Gladstone and Austen Chamberlain being? the hostesses. , The Labour Party entertained the delegates at tea on the terrace at the House of Commons. No speeches were made. Later the delegates and ladies motored to the Ranelagh Club, where Mrs C. Arthur Pearson gave a banquet. Mr Pearson, who has done much organising in connection with the Conference, was absent owing to having to undergo an operation on his eyes. The beautiful grounds were brilliantly illuminated.