JOURNALISTS CONFER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 919, 12 September 1910, Page 7

JOURNALISTS CONFER.

GREAT GATHERING IN LONDON. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright. .(Ilec. September 12, 0.10 a.m.) ; London, September 10. The conference proceedings of the Journalists' Institute were opened by a luncheon given by the Government in the House of Lords. There were seventy colonial and a hundred British newspaper proprietors and editors present. Lord Beauchamp (Lord Steward) presided, and among those present were Mr. J.: Henniker Heaton, M.P., and part-proprietor of the "Sydney Evening Nows"'; Sir Edward Russell, editor of the Liverpool "Daily Post"; Sir E. Carruthers Gould, artist; Sir Gilzean Reid, founder 'of the Institute; Sir Douglas Straight,. . treasurer; : Mr. Harold Spender, the well-known author;.and Mr. Owen Seaman, editor of "Punch."

Captain Muirhead Collins and Lord Beauchamp, in felicitous speeches, proposed the usual loyal toasts. '•. )'•"' The. Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Colonel Seeiy, welcomed the guests in : the name. of the King and the Govern ment, and remarked that the "Press commanded unrivalled opportunities for promoting great causes. Among these, as affecting, the Empire he especially commended . tropical medicine. Scientists, he said, had already saved far more lives than were destroyed'in the .Napoleonic wars, and he instanced the case of. Uganda,'where 200,000 persons had died from sleeping, sickness before remedial measures could be taken, whereas . the. deaths now. were only 1700 per annum.

Referring to the diffusion and diseusr sion of news .creating a better understanding between peoples, Colonel Se'ely emphasised .'the arbitration "and settlement of. the. Newfoundland fisheries dispute, which' l had; lasted' more; than ■ 10,0 years. Difficulties had "been removed,' and what threatened to be a permanent sore had passed into the , region "of history. . '.X. };: \

-. Mr.. Harry Lawson, president'of the institute,..responded, as did also. Mr. W.'-'H." Triggs; of: Christchurch, chairman ,of ■ the-Overseas .Committee,, and Mr. D.Maling.:/; ;.};;* . ■:•',■ .;'; .