TESTIMONIAL TO THE PREMIER.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 91, 29 March 1902, Page 6

TESTIMONIAL TO THE PREMIER.

IN the couise of a few weeks the Piemiei will lea\e us to lepiesent New Zealand at the Coionation of the King, and it is thought that his appioachmg depaituie piesents a fitting time to expiessappieciation and appicvsal ot the piompt and piactical pioot he has given of the sympathy of his fellow colonists with then Motheiland in hei South Ah ican struggle. Loyalty is but kinship wntten large, and e\eiy man and woman in the colony is pioudot thecmnson thiead which makes the people of New Zealand loyal sons and daughters of the British Empne The Premier's high ofhee has been to \oice our loyalty and gne it effectual shape, and the vigoui and judgment he has displayed in this ha\e not only won oui giatitude and admnation, but have shown the woild that whate\ei be the saenhce, we cheei fully take oui stand beside oui Mothei Countiy, foi the maintenance of hei honoui and the integnty ot hei Empue. An addiess embodying these \ ie\\ s is now being signed thiou»hout the colony, in oidei that the Pienuei can leave with a stiong expiession ot opinion behind him endoising his actions with legaid to the wai, and the colony's attitude to the Mothei Countiy. Subbcnptions to tlie piesentation which will accompany the addiess can be toiwaided dnect to the Tieasurers, Messis J H B. Coates and A H. Miles, 01 to the Secie taiy, A. S. Biss, 01 to any membei of the Committee. All signatuies and subsciiptions must leach the Secietaiy not latei than 31st Maich, in oidei that they may be included in the presentation N. EEID, Chairman of Committee.