A NEWSPAPER JUBILEE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1136, 25 May 1911, Page 8

A NEWSPAPER JUBILEE.

THE CHHISTCHUECH "PRESS." (By TeloEraph.-Press Association.) • Christchurch, May 24. . "The Press" daily paper celebrates its jubilee .to-morrow. The messages of congratulation which it has received from England, Australia, and all parts of the Dominion fill 2\ pages of the paper. Among them are greetings from his Excellency the Governor, all the ex-Gover-nors of Xe-,y Zealand who are still living, Mr.'Joseph Chamberlain, Lord ( 31ilner, Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, the editors of leading London and Australian newspapers,, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, and the Leader of (he Opposition, and many others. The following is the text of the letter from his Excellency the Governor:—

"I should like to add my congratulations to the 'Press' on attaining its jubilee, and nope that it will continue on a still more extensive scale its career of usefulness. The 'Press' is to he commended on its great enterprise both in regard to admirable pictorial representations it has furnished of contemporary events of interest, and the profitable'information it has afforded to farmers especially in the Canterbury district, as well as the local aiid Imperialistic spirit it has displayed since its inception, as especially evinced during the South African War by successfully carrying through the 'More Men Funds.' —Islington. Governor."

• The' Eight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain writes:—

"Dear Mr. Trices,—l hear, that you are celebrating the jubilee of the Christchurch 'Pre.;s.'..ancl ] venture to send you my compliments and good wishes on the occasion. I fellow with interest all that is done in New Zealand, and I .believe that although, our position is a very different one in England we have much to learn from your experience. The past, shows that the New Zcalandcrs have understood their own affairs, and the great progress they have made must give satisfaction to all Englishmen. I still believe that before long we shall carry tariff reform in England, and I anticipate great henefit both to ourselves and to the Dominions who have already given us their approval and shown their interest by the preference they have allowed us. In my v>w, the Dominions will form the most jntoivstiiisr part-of our future development, and I look to them to show us the way that we ought to follow.. Meanwhile, I wish vou every prosperity, and am yours trulyi .1. Chamberlain."