OUR LONDON LETTER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 25 September 1909, Page 1

OUR LONDON LETTER.

(I'roiii Our Own Correspondent.) j SIR JOSEPH WARD'S DOINGS. LONDON, July 25. Sir Joseph Ward, whose doings in the Old Country are dealt with extensively in another column, Lady Ward, and Miss Ward, will leave Liverpool on August 21st, in the Campania fot Nciw York, oh their return journey. They wiU embark in the Makura at Vacouver on Sept. 10th. Sir Joseph dined with tho King's Colonials at Pond Farm^, Salisbury Plain on Sunday night. Dr Mason, late Chief Health Officer in New Zealand, has- arrived here with his wjfe and family. He is to be attached to the High Commissioner's Department for twelve months. Mrs Fox, widow of the late 001. Fox, and. daughter of Sir Wiilliam Russell, was -a passenger for London by it he Rimutaka. She is accompanied by hcv daughter. Also by tbe Rimutaka Mr and Mrs Gerald L. Stead, of Christchurch, are returning via Capetown and Hobart on September 2nd. They have been spending most of their time motoring through the country in a Spyker ;ar which Mr Stead has bought. Mr Frank E. Powell, chief draughtsman to the Auckland Harbour Board, ml Mrs Powell, are visiting England on a holiday tour, after about ■seven years' absence in New Zeaa:id. They are at present with friends in the country, and intend afervvards to visit Frace, Holland, and Dcmark for a short tour, and on iu-ir return in the autumn they will ■hit some of our northern cities in this coutry, when Mr Powell will :i!:e the opportunity of inspecting n-.'.0 work now being carried out h're for the Harbour Board. The world's rccord-'breaking liner, '.. i Maurctania, is carrying among if v staff of 30 engineers Mr Cyril ..'crliss, formerly of Dunedin, tl;e son of Mr P. C. Corliss, Deputy '•: imp Commissioner at Dunedin. Mr i'::ss is six-lh engineer of the big ;:narder. He is only 26 years of ..0, and learned his trade in the .v.rkshop of Messrs Joseph Sparrow .i:-d Sou, of Dunedin. He was former- ; \- 011 the cngic-room staff of the Aderal-Houlder-Shire liner Surrey. Vbout eighteen months hgo he join- ! the Maurctania as fourteenth en : ' , ; :;oer, and has since worked his way .\y the scale. ' .Five New Zealanders appear among ' lose who have gained the degree of ' .::c!ie!or of Medicine and Bachelor ' v Surgcrv, viz., E. L. Cawkwell, W. ' 1 '. Chryatall, H. G. Feltham, J. H. < .;-jwry, and- W. S. Robertson , | Captain Greenstreet, . the popular • -emmodore of the Nciw Zealand Ship- ; iig Company's fleet, will command ' I c new passenger liner Ruahine, 11/W building on the Clyde. She is ' U;e to leave London on November :;th. Captain Smith, of the Opawa, -.' s replaced Ca.ptaln Greenstreet on '. c Rimutaka. I learn that Madame Calve is go- ' i!g out to Australia and New Zeaiiid next Easter, under tho manage- 1 ient of the Messrs Tait. She will J vc thirty concerts, and at each she ' vill sing a group of modern and ■ issical songs, and an act from one ' f the well-known operas, the last j • mcd in eositume. Her last concrt in June was under Messrs Tait 'a | .'inagcment. Miss Eva Balfour, tbe charming ow Zealander who is married to r Lawson Balfour, the (well-k-nown i List of Christchurch, bas been en-:-.ged by Mr Fred Terry for tho aur.nin tour of "Henry of Navarre." iss Balfour is to uhder-study one/ r the leading roles, and also to ap-;-ar in a minor part. She has re- : ratty been reciting at a number ot At Homes" in London, and has i ! so appeared at a special mainee at :-.e Bedford Theatre, in a one-act ■iiy, "The Crystal Gazer,'' in vhich her charming personality and sympathetic acting were greatly adn -red. A marriage has been announced, :i;l will take place in the autumn, -. Ilon.g Kong, between Walter John ■>r,-.iiel, of Bamsgale, solicitor, young- ,- son of the late Frederick William .''.an' el, of Ramsgate and Buenos \yres, and Miss Nena Nitlisdale, A-.ighter of Colonel Stuart Newall, ' R.. of Wellington. . The folohvung appears in the •Daily Telegraph" of Saturday:— Maswell.— On August 6th, at 108 Ixford-gardens, N. Kensington, in i=s 76th year, Richard Maxwell, late if the National Bank of New Zea'and. Funeral serv-ico at Golders-rr-?n Crematorium, Monday, Au,gv. Ith., at twelve noon. Friends, -.ir.dly aeccpt this the only, intimaion. Colonial, China, and Indian <a|';ers please copy. T)r. Gossett and five other New Zeaand bowlers now on a visit here, !z., Messrs W. Dingle, F. Luscombe, ". Curtia Thompson, and Parkinson, nve intimated their intention of t iking part in the tournament, open -1 Colonial bowlers for the silver low-Is, presented by Mr Stephen Forcscue. With the exception of Dr. jossett, the players named are all II embers of the Hawcra Club, Tara;aki. On Friday your Premier was the •hief guest at a luncheon given at he Trocadero by tne Imperial Cooperation League, the object of which is to bring about a closer union of the Empire. The organisaion has hitherto been known as the 'niTicrial Federation (Defence- Comnittee, a body which, it may be reuonibcred, was formed on the dissolution of the Imperial Federation League in 1897. The eonunittee has "or many years advocated on nonparty lines the closer union o£ the "mpire, mainly by means of organisation for Imperial Naval defence. v<\ now that it. is reconstituted under the title of the Imperial Coipcration League, while maintaining Mie same geeral objects, it was felt that some recognition should be made on its part of the patriotic action of New Zealand in being tbe first of the Dominions to offer a Dreadnought to the Imperial "Navy.The Earl of Onslow presided, and amongst those present were: — Lady Wara and Miss Ward, Mrs and Miss HnllvTones, the Viscount Hampden; Rear. Admiral Sir Charles O.ttley/ secretary to the Committee of Imnerial Defence; Dr. Fitchett, -your .?olicrtor'Gener4l; Sir Sancfcf»rd Fleming, Chancellor of Queen's University, Canada; Mr H. Pike Pease, M.P.; Sir H. Kimber M.P.; Sir J. Barker, M.P.|; Sir Frederick Young, Mr Peel, M.P.; Mr A. Cecil Beck,' M.P.; Mr W. F Roocu,,-M.P.;. Mr H

A. Ridsdale, A&l.P.; . .Captain Waring, M.P.; Mr'A.VJ. SheiweU, Mi Arthur Fell, ..M.P.; &1.&~%t Howard i'Egville, hon. secV' '.' . The Earl of . Onslow proposod the toast of the King, calling upon ■, the company to drink, to the "Common ! Sovereign of the whole of the Brit- . ish Empire." ■f In proposing the health of Sir Jo--2 seph Ward, the Chairman said that 5 their guest had come to these shores f to atted a conference "-which was one s of the: milestones on the road "to th« federation, of the Empire. r On the , part of New. Zealand there ha 1 been , a; great imgulse— pne-of - thps=i , impulses -Which^iriade-- ;the-' history of . 'miiglijty,/ "nations. |The spontaneous , offer of : ; a Dreadnought had caused 1 other pairta of the Empire to do . whiit the Frenchman' called ' !iurious- , ly to think." " '_ Ne<w Zealand, with her population of oiie *millian, gave a. Dreadnought, theai, on the sar.itbasis, Canada should give six, Australia four, and South Africa or,;-. (Cheers.fy But that was.'beybnd tindreams. of- imagination, and tho Government, had, therefore, summoned the representatrveE- of the dominions to take counsel together to see what was the best means of defending the \_ shores of the Empire and the seas tbat. lay between. Ho had had thehonour of presiding for a time over the destinies of New Zealand, and' he would like to say how much he was struck by the loyalty which characterised the colony. - (Hiear, .hear.) He recalled that on one occasion - when he -was in 'an outlying, part, of the .country he was to receive .the, customary .address; but the people showed some, reluctance in handing it to. him. He subsequently learnt; the season. Added to the. address were the etage directions: ''Give three cheers for the Governor, then catch up good old Dick Seddon, and bear him away shoulder high."(Laughter, and cheers.) . ' - Sir; Joseph Ward in replying, said that the main purpose of the League was to help people to think ; Imperially' Thought easily passed into action, and as soon as the bulk of tha people came to think 'and act together on great Imperial questions, - the safety" of the Empire- would be assured. ■ The Empire was so- vast, so scattered,, and its component parts were so diverse that the problem of ' co-ordination and' consolidation -was one to tax the wisewt heads. Take defence, for example. On ,the one tand it was said- that there was need of one absolutely unfettered centre of control,'- so that the whole forces of the Empire might be directed to one point in case of necessity. • On the other hand, it was urged that the ovetrsea - dominions would not be justified in leaving themselves locally hopeless, and that they could do best by relieving the Home country of all or much of .the burden of local dofance, each dominion controlling its own unit. Upon, these two aspects he could not be expected - to"expressr an opinion until after the sittings of thei Imperial Naval .- Conference. He fbefieyed in conferences, at all events where the parties meet to con- ': fer/'nof-to dispute. They brought men ,. together face to- face in the flesh," the men got to know one' another as nien, not- as epistolary abstractions. A day's honest and earnest talk round the table would oftehaecomfpiish .more than a -year's » memorandum writing, where' each memorandum provided another to ■explaiiv'ror "contradict it. Isolated' and intermittent conferences were maker shifts .at best.' Some scheme' 'of contihuitji§rinust be devised. Personally, he had^, -unlimited faith in the capacity of .the remarkably firnient commoflly Vjealled the British <C6dstitution, ; -which '.'-was not one incomprehensible, but nvany incomprehensibles, born" . nobody precisely knew when or how, and consisting: of, well, no man- kiew ; precisely what. He much regretted to hear some people talking of the decadence of - England. - He did not believe that .there was any decadence in England. True, there was necessity, for improving our position in many ways, but that applied to other eoun-. tries also. Those who recently visited Portsmouth, and saw the spiendid "linos of battleships, with 50,0CH? British seamen ready to strike for King and^ country' recognised that ac heart the nation was true, and that its one desire was to elevate old England to a still higher plane. Tho kindly allusion of Lord Onslow to Now Zealand's offer of a • Dread--nought would be highly appreciated. Apart from the intrinsic worth of a Dreadnought, the moral effect of it was incomparably great. It was by co-etperation in -this and other directions that they could do much to bring the overseas dominions into closer and more real" touch with the Motherland. (Cheers.) He had great faith in the- capacity of tho British Constitution to adapt : itself to changes which must come if this nation was to abide' as, one "" great whole ..instead _ of - splitting ' off -'into, - fragments. - In that way the .oversea dominions .would not be dependencies. They would be ' co-heirs in. the might inheritance of Empire which our- fathers created, and which we now held^-^sharing-'with the Mother Country not : only^ its burden of defence, tout -the privilege' and-- -responsibility -of - government. (Cheers.) The health of "the Chairman • ;was ■ proposed- by Mr J. Cathcart' Wason, , M.P., -and the Earl of Onslow .briefly replied. _ y 'At the invitation of Colonel' -Fos< tescue, Comamnding Oflteer • of the King's Colonial . .Regiment, a visit was made on Sun'day^to^ the' camp'bh Salisbury villain; by Sir Joseph. Ward and Colonel Foxton, the delegate from the ' Commonwealth of Australia to : the' Defence Conference; Col. Bevis, of the Transvaal; Mr Just, of the Colonial Office? and Captain R. ' Muirhead Collins. , They . were met at Salisbury'; and motored to' the camp. - Major JGenaral T. W. BenBon also, visited the regiment, and an inspection ' of their lines was made. Both Sir Joseph, and. Colonel Foxton had the opportunity of speaking to many New Zealanders and Australians^ .members of- the regiment, and were .much^ interested, ia their. visit. \ I may fiientioE' hera ; that Sir Joseph hin^f-'liasya son ia the ranks of the King's Colonials, as also have the Hon. W. P. : Schreiner and .General Cronje^. T A ;. VA His Majesty received Bir Joseph on" Monday to ibid farewell ; : to him prior: to' his Majesty's departure" -for Marienlbad. Bir Joseph .-; aidV laAy Ward were also raceived by : ; the Prince' and Princess, of Wales on Tuesday,, and .remained; to luncheon.

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