As requested, the Premier conveyed through his Excellency the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies the resolutions handed to him by the Mayor, and passed at a meeting held on Friday at the Theatre Royal; also the resolutions passed at the meeting held in Post Office Square. The following reply thereto has been received by the Governor:—“ln answer to. your- telegram of the 18th January, the Government and people of the United Kingdom gratefully appreciate repudiation by meeting of citizens of New Zealand addressed by the Prime Minister of the slanders on the British forces in South Africa and on the conduct of the war. The approval of a colony which has shown such splendid patriotism, and made such sacrifices for the Empire and its Sovereign, is a source of the greatest satisfaction to his Majesty’s Government. I desire, at the same timo, to express my personal thanks for the expressions of confidence contained in the second resolution.”
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New Zealand Mail, 29 January 1902, Page 55
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