The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911. HAVING A GOOD TIME.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 89, 3 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911. HAVING A GOOD TIME.

IF wo may judge by the reports that are being received daily From the Old Country, the overseas delegates to the Imperial ConFcrenco are having a rigid royal time. There would appear to be at least as much feasting as work, and iF this sort oF thing goes on there will probably be doctors' bills to pay. Now Zealanders do not greatly mind being told by the cable agent that iSir Joseph Ward, in Windsor costume, appealed at this function or that; but to bo continually parading the Federal Premier, Mr Fisher, is becoming nauseous. What Mr Fisher thinks of the Epsom Derby is no concern of ours—or of anybody elso’s, for that matter. It was only the other day that Sir Ceorgo Reid’s doings, as related by cable, tilled up a fair-sized daily paper; but the bulky form of the High Commissioner of Australia is completely obscured when Labour Prime Ministers and Premiers—there is a distinction without a difference —are on the stage. The British people like something now in colonial politicians at frequent intervals—hence the late Hon. Tom Price had a mofjt brilliant innings. Others from Australia have followed, but none created such an impression or made so much noise as Sir Ceorgo Reid; and he in turn has been passed out to make room for the Labour lions. Sir Joseph Ward, Sir W. Hall-Jones, and Dr. Findlay occasionally catch the eye of the cable agent, but they are treated as more outsiders compared to Mr Fisher. We were told just recently, in all seriousness, that as Mr McCowen, Labour Premier of New South Wales, was passing Kingsway, ho noticed some riveters working on a huge girder. He asked permission to help, and dexterously completed the job before revealing his identity. He gained his end, however—the whole civilised world was apprised of the fact. What will bo the result of so much fuss being made of the colonial representatives of Labour in the Old Country is difficult to foresee. Should they return puffed up with vanity their political undoing is assured.