A STATE RECEPTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11541, 20 May 1892, Page 2

A STATE RECEPTION.

(Per Phess Association.) | Adeliade, May 18. ' Lord. Glalgow was received with a salute of nineteen guns from the gunj boat Protector The bluejackets formed a guard of honour on his arrival aD Larg's jetty, and he was taken in a State car--1 riage to a special train at the city station, where a detachment of the Permanont Artillery formed » guard of honour. \ The new Governor of New Zealand was ; received by Earl Kintore, the Hon. C. C. ', Kingston, Uie Mayor of the city, and a tremendous cotvd of people. He remains at Adelaide till Friday. ; May 19. Lord Glasgow. ; n thecourseof an interview, said it was evidentcn all sides that ' the frozen meat trade was increasing fast, and tho oitlo >k for New Zealand most favourable. There was, he thought, no ; danger so loni{ us Great Britain, maintains ; the Freetmdn principle, of commercial treaties wilh foreign countries affecting tho trade, tin- prejudices against which were being ov- voorne. There was a general feeling among the people of Great ' Britain in favour of tho federation of the colonies, but ho thought the question was one Australasians should consider themselves and bring about in their own way. His ExcolletK'y said General Booth had informed him that the establishment of a I "colony" in New Zealand was intirely dependent on the terms made with the shipping companies.