PRESS DELEGATES

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IX, Issue 2571, 7 June 1909, Page 2

PRESS DELEGATES

A GREAT BANQUET lll.StOniC ORATION'S. MiILLIANT SPEECH BY EARL ROSEBERY.. JJIUTAIN'B GIANT DOMINIONS.'' • Press Aefeurialioii.—(.'opvi'iy.lil. (Received Juno 7, 1.15 a.m.)

.LONDON, Juno 13, For enthusiasm and representative character tho banquet to 000 journalists ill tin* largest linll in Loudon was ono ol tlm most remarkable gatherings over held in the empire's capital, and memorable lor orations, tho speakers holding their hearers spell-bound, and transmitting a most striking and moving messago to every corner of the dominion. Lord lliirnhum, chief proprietor of the Loudon Daily Telegraph, presided, and all the press delei'iitcs and everv lending journalist of llm country was present. Tlio gwi'sts included Lord Inn Hamilton, Lord Nortliclilfe, Max Pemberlou (author). Sir Douglas Straight (editor of the Pall Mall Gazotto and lion, treasurer of tlm imivspajter sociefcv), Mr. George l'nrkin (author and iocj,urcr °» Imperial Federation), and

l»oru rubor. Conspicuous among the decorations were symbolic Imperial designs, and there was a musical programme of national songs representative of Great and Creator Britain. Nine; Mivurd scut a. warm response to a loyal telegram hoping that ln> nould long he' spared to the people •and euipiro. Karl Roseberv liindu tlm speech „f «"» nvßimig. which is' gonorally pronounced as nothing less than wonderful and perhaps his most brilliant effort. In welcoming tlio press delegates he emphasised tlie ejiorniotis importance of j i° gathering. JleferriiiMo tlio confer- ! 7 0 1 r »"o Minnlcrs of the empire, I K 0 l »e linportance of these K«t imiigs, )„> would say that the prest II ITai" T " wro i,n l>«»itiuil SMI , ,s Ministries «-ore transient, 1 . ,1 c l">ffor of great newspapers in regaining and embodying opinion had il ' Jl ' sl ilml simplest «0 ids on tlio present oecasion-the onlv two essential words, and perhaps the surest that mortal could he,!r-,vere TII ™ ll,0 tl cheers.) .v, th , e lnoUo 1 for the occasion - eliilrl) „° ye'!' home." Do proceeded to view, with delicate Sre tl,!! •If'' 08 ,° f ~ 1U" 1111,1 3"°' V m /'"Jure ol what the del,.Wtes who hud arrived would see of ''"'P Present, includim' ino piodigiutis hut always inadeoualo •\™ "protecting its shores." ' Al those, gentlemen," he exclaimJours as much as ours." I ,ll0 » llft asked what thev bad lidding fliat thev had broii'dit i" 01 '" | o the motherland than thev cell d take from her. The best tlie'v i " "["IK was knowledge about themselves, their communities, their aspirations, and their policies. Latterly, according to the practice of retired politicians, ho had dreamed a dream and pictured Parliament voting sup- • plies for two years, packing itself up iu obsolete warships (now so readilv scrapped"), nud .going on a trip to discover something about the empire, Meanwhile the motherland would bo . governed, much as now, hv tho heads of f permanent Departments of some use, I' 1 ei'haps thev would have greater cou--1 lidonco in its welfare under such wellj ordered control. (Laughter.) Ho next dwelt on the surprises of ilm ) countries visited under tho imagined , wmr of discovery. In democratic i Canada the Premier was holding his I own against ihe buffets of innumerable ._ elections, showing thai, wealth was not , N cnnie, Next, Now Zealand was r l :'!'', r , vlll K out, in total absence of tradition or complexity, the policies we t were endeavouring to construct, t (Received June 7, 1.50 a.m.) LONDON', June (j. Earl Jlosebery, continuing, said ho was astonished at the virility of Aus : Hi .sustaining seven Legislatures. Itotorring to South Africa, the greatest modoru success in emph;e-biiiTding, lie said llgaiidn should bo avoided, lest bdES/ tho t ' x " l,railloiit s,lol|ltl Finally, after a tribute to Mr. Ilen-"ikor-lioaton s activity, Earl Roseberv, I altering his mood, described the extrav ordinary nnpressivenoss of the slate of i IMirppo, saying the surface was calm „ in its overpowering preparation for „ »'«r. Britain " lie said, "is delerI spend, ,1 need he, her last "s! tl lwlllllull Kl | ts. lam not- - Mllu lmt even then there will be - V't'!®'] 1 ' U ,v ' l loss ih'y be vour duty to carry to the dominions a message that iOino of the personal duty . «w.J I 2Kl °' Wcw rat « ' i'-'V 1-omJi-"l 1 ol Europe, which was rattling into liirbarism. and added: "I'Zure k T ! '■' r f aild and yours, I.IKO tins message also back: The Old • 1 I nt ,lw "f There is no weakness in her. Slio reoicm in renewing her youth in her i plant dominions beyond the seas For 1 ™ii ° W "" I RMl ;; ,ltil "? sl«»* loolc to lit-r- ---, •*»«,tbiMi„ t *.i,;;