The Premiers at Home.

Thames Star, Issue 10450, 23 September 1902, Page 3

The Premiers at Home.

Concerning the übiquitous colonial Premiers and their daily "four-deep" social engagements 'Dagonet' (Mr Geo. R. Sims) discoursed m characteristic fashion »ro the London Referee: "Our visitors are magnificent sepcimens of the powers of endurance of Britons beyond'the seas. The amount of hard work—festive, ceremonial, and Ministerial—'that they liwve gone through since they landed on our shores would break down any ordinary man. But the colonial Premiers beam on their hosts as benignly at 4 a.m. as at any other hour of the day or night. To the reception given by Sir Chailes and Lady Wyndham, at the Hyde Park Hotel, at midnight most of the colonial Premiere came on from a dinner at .the Constitutional 'Club. Some of them had also been present* at a public luncheon on the stmw diay ; others had journeyed from the M.dlands direct from receiving freedoms and Mayoral hospitality. But at. 2 a.m. the colonial Premiers ro~e> one by one, alert, smiling, keen of eye. and fluent of tongue 1, nadi proposed Sir Charles' health. . And that is the sort of life—strenuous, 'I really think is the word here —that these poor Premiers have beeni leading for weeks past. It is understood that directly they g.ct on board ship to return home the victims of Imperial unity will be put on milk diet, and sent to bed every evening at nine, by order of the Board of Health and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Colonial Premiers."