LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 290, 12 November 1883, Page 3

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

The Guildhall "BanquetM (by ET.itcrrMc TBi^ajtiPHi,— cobyriqe-Tj) „.,.(BByTE^8 i TEI.EG'ftAMS.') : v:;^ i. ' v ., j j' . '. . iioNbpN, : 10;. At the GuvldblalL Banquet last evening (Lord.'Mayor'ij Day) Al, Waddington the French, Minister who was !frese^kawidHHab h&;had been charged with a mission of- 'promoting ; tlie fyierite conKafefbetween France and En^lahd. He sttenuotislvdenid^tHat liKX3r6vei;nment j were>desm>us: "^pf spurip jng , &n agressive colonial jtplicy, "oje making_ war fop'the'acquisiiiion of ' 'teriit'ory : ; in ; -any part of the/woridri n : -; [ i ■•■ -v-r \ Mr Gladstone said he warmly sympathised wi,th J^rttncCiiinrihe iMadagas-carjcft!^riajgnj:-and:r<ionni?med< 'Mv Waddoccurred toJ-tiafti^tlfeHdbrdialHiy" 6f l tlie relations between the-two countries ,and added that the Fren&hXiovernment had made satisfactory' Preparation^ for T the, r treatmeßt^ wiich tlW^evi "Sttag* 1 has been^uhjected^^wiAhoiit^abUcilatibn' byjthlei English ;^oo?«rnmeiit;. ■ ' ' ;- ! ! ; : ■ j ' j The Premier also- stated that „i;h,p stay ,6f the British' troops m Egypt depended upon 4he progress which.., was made intbejtast .England 'had 5 undertaken m tbat- country.; -He padded; ' liowever, tfia'tvth^piiTtial^^vithdrawal, entailing the evac«atioh-of Cairo by the BritisUtfoi««BJwMcb?were iho'w m occupation had already-been ordered. r f , Wilfcx^fctofoe aspec?6 fl 6f cofitinl- \ entittn politics, :.Mr Gladstoh'e, 1 thlfe/ith»i:iPowers: : were 1 ' unanimottsj :fii '' deJßling.4beJpreao.rvation of '.pea;cf. J f' L " Count do Lesseps r: Whb ws^T J also among the fgueste said that tie had come to England to confer with the represen^ivW'bf^ne^Bnt.ish shipowners regptfditlg ithe" pr'oiected 'scc'oricl Siiez Canal, and that he hoped r toli)e abte'Vo" KM&tiafy all reasonable claims that might B*be,made. "7 ■ i : /