SIR JOSEPH WARD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 3

SIR JOSEPH WARD.

HOMEWARD BOUND. At last London and Sir Joseph Ward are parted (say's the Wellington “Post.”) The last speech lias been made, and Britain is settling down again to Wardless life. The Prime Minister’s strenuous days in the Motherland showed that he had powers of 'endurance equal to Mr Seddon’s or Sir George .Reid’s.'] Indeed, Sir George seems to have^.suffered an eclipse for a few weeks; while Sir Joseph was shining night anil day. At the Conference, and .not at ' the Conference, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, New Zealand’s delegate never lacked speech. And now one has to contemplate him as a nonspoechmaker for a few weeks, while the seas yawn more apd more widely > day after day, between him and the Empird’s capital. One may fancy that for a day or two the Prime Minister will “make” speeches on the high seas by force of habit, just

as a fly-wheel revolves for a time after steam has been turned off. Presently, too, tiro home-coming Imperialist may be picked up by wireless, and then the deluge once more. Some of Sir Joseph’s recent generalisations about New Zealand sentiment and opinion may expose him to criticism in and out of Parliament here, but.,all political parties will agree that he gave this country a notable advertisement; The Old Country had no chancfe to overlook the existence of New Zealand. Down through the parallels he is coming to meet the spring here and the strenuous life again. He will stop from the quietness of ocean to a land electric with a complication of political currents. In this recess the Opposition lias been working harder, as' the leader admits, than it has done for twenty years. North and South the “Reform Party” is waging war, and Sir Joseph will land just, when the combatants arc in the thick of their preparations .for iho dual mil.tie .</i ’the pol Ts."" i<Voni iHe;-viewpo-.K ot hard walk, physical and I •ucataj .strain, London wns i in- frying I pan, ..and ew Zealand promises iu be the lire.