EARL STANHOPE IN AUCKLAND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 8

EARL STANHOPE IN AUCKLAND.

■-..,•„ HIS TOpR:.OF/THB- EMPIRE. //, ■■■■:.'■ CBIIBLEOEiPH—PRESS. ASSOCIATION.) "Z'/ "; \ //S; //1 Auokland, February 9./, ! Earl: Stanhope, who arrived in from .Sydney .by the Wimmcra 'on Mondty morning;'-is..making/a' tour of thei British Empire with the object of obtaining a more' .intimate -acquaintance -with Imperial, affairs/ 'Ho is;'specially interested in the;subjects.of defence and' colonial' preference! He -,travelled ■;to New' Zealand "via the Vancouver route. .The'timo , at his disposal for a tour through: the. Dominion is very, restricted, but ho'is making'the ,best use of'it.' -''■•yds-.' torday,.Vunder the'.guidance':of: the Mayor, he' had; interviews with several represcntativemen, and to-day has .beeii devoted to thp inspectionf of -Bomo of: our colonial' mahufacprobably leave for Rotorua. to-morrow,'where he'will meet Sir Joseph Ward,; , proceeding- thence overland to"' Wellington;' ;ly ' '.■:'. ' "■" - -' : :, '■ ■'■■'■'■-. '/EarVSfcanHope is'the Beventn in succession to"thettitle.'-: Hβ wasborn in 1880,; and' was formerly' a^captain' , in' the. Grenadier Guards and A.p.O. ;'to the -Major-General. .Conimanding ■Mα. London- district. /He succeeded to the title , in-1905, arid is unmarried. '. ■;