MR. ROOSEVELT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 831, 1 June 1910, Page 5

MR. ROOSEVELT.

IN ENGLAND. A DISTINGUISHED GATHERING. "ONE OF THE DREAMS OF HIS LIFE." By Toionraph-Press Assoriation-Copyrieht London, May 30. Mr. Eoosevelt was entertained at lunch by the Royal Geographical Society. Hβ alterwards attended a reception given by Sir George Heiil (Australian High Commissioner) and Lady Ueid. Those who attended included FieldMarshal Lord Kitchener, Admiral Lord Charles lieresford and Lady Beresford, the Earl aud Countess of Month, the Knrl anil Countess of March, Mrs. and Miss Asquitii, Lord Laniington (ex-Gov-ernor of Queensland), Lord Linlithgow, (spn the late Marquis of Linlithgow, who was the iirst Governor-General of Australia), Lord Brasscy (an ex-Governor of Victoria) and Lady lirassey, Lord Tennyson (an ex-Governor-General of Australia) and Lady Tennyson, Lord Strathcona (Canadian High Commissioner) and Lady Strathcona, the Hon. W. Hall-Jones (New Zealand High Commissioner) and Mrs. Hall-Jones, Sir Edward Poyuter (the eminent ar(ist), Sir Conan Doylo (novelist), Mr. H. G. Herkomer (artist), Mr. Bertram Mackonnal (the Australian sculptor) and Mrs. Mackennal, Lord nnd Lady Kinnaird, the Hon. M. L. Moss, K.C. (of Western Australia), the Spanish Ambassador (Senor de Villa Urrutia), the Countess of Jersey (wife of an ex-Governor of New South Wales), Dr. Wace (Dean of Canterbury), Sir Gilbert Parker, M.P. (the novelist) and Lady Parker, Admiral Sir Harry Rawson (ex-Governor of New South Wales) and Miss Eawson, General Jsir Edward Hutton (one time Commander of the Commonwealth Forces), Dr. Francis Muecke nnd Mrs. Muecke (Miss Ada Crossley), the Hon. Newton Moore (Premier of Western Australia) and Mrs. Moore, Admiral Sir Nathaniel .BovdenSmith (one time Commauder-in-Chief on thn Australian Station) and Lady Bow-den-Smith, Admiral Sir E. Freinantle, Admiral . Sir Cyprian Bridge (commanding on the Australian Station from 1895 to 1S98), Sir J. W. Taverner (AgentGencral for Victoria) and Lady Taverner, Dr. M'Coll (Agent-General for Tasmania) and Mrs. M'Coll, Mr. J. B. Jenkins (tx-Agent-Geuerul for South Australia), Sir. T. A. Coghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales) and Mrs. Coghlan, Major T. B. Eobinson (Agent-Gen-eral for Queensland) and Mrs. Eobinson, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, MajorGeneral Sir Eeginald Talbot (ex-Gover-nor of Victoria) and Lady Talbot, Mr. Arthur Lee, ex-M.P. (military attache with the United States Army during the Spanish-American War in IS9S, and military attache at Washington in 1899), Mr. Devitt, Mr. Moberley Bell (of "The Times"), and the editors of leading Loudon newspapers, Captain Muirhead Collins (secretary to Sir George Reid) and Mrs. Collins, the Hon. A. Kirkpatrick (Agent-General for South Australia) and Mrs., Kirkpatrick, and Sir Philip and Lady Grey-ERerton.

Lady and Miss Reid heartily welcomed the visitors. '

Mr. Roosevelt conversed with many of the Australians present. More than once ho said that ono of the dreams of his life was to visit and study the great democracy of tho Southern Seas.