NEWSPAPER JUBILEE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7449, 25 May 1911, Page 8

NEWSPAPER JUBILEE

THE CHRISTCHURCH "PRESS.” ' • PEOPLE. v CHRISTCHURCH, May 24. Th© Christchurch "Press” daily celebrates its jubilee to-morrow. The mesages of coneraulation which it has received from England, Australia and all parts of the Dominion fill two and a half pages of the paper. Among them are greetings froh his Excellency the Governor, all the ex-Governors of New Zealand who are living:, Mr Joseph Chamberlain., Lord Milner, > Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, the editors of the leading London and Australian newspapers, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, ths leader of the Opposition

and many oilier.-. Following is the tesfc of tlie letters received from tue Governor and Mr Chamberlain; — His Excellency the Governor of New. Zealand: , ' , “I should like to add my congratulations to tho ‘Press’ on attaining ita jubilee, and hope that it will. continue on a still more extensive scale, its career of usefulness. The ‘Press’ is. to be commended on its great enterprise, both in. regard to th© admirable.- pictorial representations it has furnished of contemporary events of interest and the profitable information, it has afforded to farmers, especially in the Canterbury district, gas well as the local and Imperialistic spirit it has displayed since its inception, as especially evinced during the South African war by successfully carrying through tho More Men fund.” —Islington, Governor, Government House, Auckland.” The Eight Hon; Joseph Chamberlain i • “Villa Victoria, Cannes, March 3-tth. 1911.— Hear Mr Triggs,— l hear ’hat you are th© jubilee of the Christchurch ‘Press,’ and I venture to send you my compliments and good wishes on the occasion. I follow with interest ail that is done in Now Zealand, and I believe that, although our position is a very- different one in England, wa. have much to learn from jour ciptlienee. The past shows that tne New Zealanders have understood i heir own affairs, and the great progress “hey have made must give satisfaction to nil Englishmen. . I still believe that before long we shall cany tariff reform in England, and I anticipate great benefit both to ourselves and to tho dominions who have already given us their approval and shown tlieir interest by the, preference they have allowed us. In may view tho ’dominions will form the most interesting part of our future development,' and I look to them to show us the way that we ought to follow. Meanwhile I wish you every properity, and am, j-oure truly, J. Chamberlain."