Lord Milner Feted.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3879, 28 May 1906, Page 3

Lord Milner Feted.

A BRILLIANT FUNCTION. London, May 25. Five hundred and fifty gueafcs were present at a banquet to Lord Milner at the Hotel Cecil. Hundreds of applications for admission were refused. Ik was a most representative gathering, including many peers, commoners, commercial men, and others famous in science, literature and the professions. Mr Chamberlain presided and read cablegrams from Earl Grey, twentyeight Dominion Commoners, and all parts of South Africa, sympathising with the object of the banquet and expressing gratitude for Lord Milnet’s services to South Africa and the Empire. Mr Chamberlain, in an elaborate eulogy, declared Lord Milner was one of the great assets of the Empire, and it was most unjust for the Liberals, with a temporary majority, to pass an unmerited slight on a great public servant. Lord Milner expressed bis gratitude at the manifestation of confidence and sympathy. He believed the strong instinct in the heart of the nation was to treat public servants with broad generosity, to judge their work as a whole, and make allowance for difficulties. Lord Ourzon eloquently proposed the toast of "Our dominions beyond the sea,” and insisted that unless we were prepared to make sacrifices.for the Empire it was an empire only ,n name,