THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 June 1909, Page 4

THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

DOINGS IN LONDON, ii*ftEss Association.— Cofzbiohx.] LONDON, Monday. "The Times'' Ottawa correspondent says the visit of the Australasian Press delegates has accentuated the interest in the Press Conference. The agitation for a State-owned cable between Britain and Canada is increasing owing to the telegraph companies attempting to boycott Marconi messages and confine their dealings to the cable companies, with whom they have fixed agreements. The Government and Opposition newspapers insist that Cord Rosebery's speech was a tour de force. "The Daily Mail" says the speech was an inspiration of a broader patriotism, and will hasten the day when the tax on knowledge of the' Empire is reduced, and cables, which are the veins and arteries of the Empire, will flow free and unfettered. The Radical newspapers comment upon the message wherein Lord Rosebery suggested that the unprecedented warlike preparations might lead Europe Dack to barbarism or cause a catastrophe whereat the working men would cry : "We will have no more of this madness and foolery, which is grinding us to powder." The delegates lunched with Lord Burnham at Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, where they met Mr Lyttelton, Sir George Goldie, and Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell. They were afterwards the guests of Lord Desborough at Taplow Court, and motored back to London, Rain marred the trip. Fifty of the ladies accompanying the delegates were present at His Majesty's Theatre on Saturday to witness MiTree's production of "The School for Scandal."