WELCOME GUESTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7848, 10 July 1911, Page 7

WELCOME GUESTS

PREMIERS AT GLASGOW A SPLENDID RECEPTION. LORD KITCHENER’S COMPLIMENT. ByTcla^ra-ph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, July 7. Mr Fisher and Sir Joseph Ward, Premiers of Australia and New Zealand respectively, were accorded a splendid reception at the various Glasgow functions. Sir Joseph Ward, at a luncheon at the City Chambers, said New Zealanders would be pleased to receive the Lord Provost’s message of affectionate goodwill. Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener, in receiving the Freedom of tho City, remarked that ho was particularly pleased to bo associated with Mr Fisher and Sir Joseph "Ward, because he had submitted to their Governments a scheme of military reorganisation which was now being carried out with tho thoroughness that so notably marked all Australia's and Now Zealand’s undertakings. FREEDOM OF EDINBURGH. CONFERRED ON FEDERAL PREMIER. LONDON, July 7. Tho Freedom of the City of Edinburgh has been conferred upon Mr Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia; SIR JOHN FINDLAY VISITING THE CONTINENT. LONDON, July 7. Sir John and Lady Findlay have started for tho Continent. RECEPTION BY THE ORDER-OF ST. JOHN. (Received July 9, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 8. The Chapter General of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem held a reception of oversea visitors in connection with tho ambulance department of the order. Tho order of St. John of Jerusalem is the oreanJsation which cstabhshed the John Amtu-aroe Association ,m 1877. Kins (Jeorgo is head of tho order in Bntam.