SIR GEORGE REID.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 101, 1 May 1914, Page 5

SIR GEORGE REID.

WELCOMED BA€K TO LONDON

A RECORD GATHERING

[Press Association.] . "(Received May "1,59 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Colonial Institute and the city gave a luncheon to welcome Sir George Reid. There -was v a record gathering, including ?the AgentsGeneral, Lord Emmott, '.Admirals Henderson a,nd - Fr-ematttle, •"■ Sir Ed-; ward' Hutton1, Sir, Albert Spicer,- and Sir' John Fuller. vjV :' : V Sir' George" Reid ..saM X that 'the lessons learnt' in the •crisis of .1893 were seen in the stabilijty <bx Australian finance; to-day. Atistrallia -was never more progressive or prosperous* He made an eloquent plea for self-sacri-fice arid '■ farsightedness in the development" of the Empire. His indirect references to (Ulster were loudly cheered.

Lopking around, said 'Sir George, it appeared to" him that *it was not in Indian Africa, or -the Overseas Dominions' where unreqt vwas found. .Englishmen were extraordinary people. 'Though they could not agree amongst themselves they could'manage the affairs of 360,'000;000 people,. He concluded with an appeal to Imperial statesmen to'hbTd "the'-^Em-pire free of ' internal conflagrations, and not to dig up; black hatreds at a moment when: the ■ moss was' growing green Vover1 "them-