"HE MADE EUROPE PAUSE."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1458, 5 June 1912, Page 6

"HE MADE EUROPE PAUSE."

■■•' :; TiIB*PEisBNT-'PR3SMIEU.ON' SIE ,~'Vi i-" ; r, ■;;v;;,yJOSEra ,:■ Iffff. , r ;K (ByfTelcgrapli^— '< 1y~' ; - 'i^:-t'-C^/S^BiM\ nvcrcorglll , "Juno 4; w ij; VSThc?ii?' ; w , ei , ttf?sw)i'c','j«cvcn';Uuiidrc(i rc-si-'.' * tlqiils uf : S>oiiil)liiiVil■ jiresent at a bnnquut ■ % li'iKk'i'eii Vto Sii'lJosojjJi Ward to-night'in-'-' ■ ■ tlie,Kiii!?'s.\Hall , .*J«vercarßill. Mr. W; A. ;>■ .Ol.tS-'pß'sklwiyniid (he was a ; :-. Amongst those ore-■ w> , . Kent. were:' , '.'lho'.l'rimc , Minister (the 110u.i. , ;'.-; , - tlio Hon. J. A. HanaujJX-, Minister. for-Education. - .. .]'■

:^lirreply'to?tho toast of "Our Guest," ; paid that he did not in- ■ ;j ■tcntlfctoypfcrito any policies or tho possi- ■ , ;^ , bilitios-of "eiilicr" party. Hβ however cuii- '■'>■«■ ■trasledwthe , : conditions of tho country <Z lTOiitj- r ■when ho entered , :~ v> member (or Awania. Closer : "'. .settloment'Viyas; scftrcely known then, trade > epmiiUqnsSJ«ero?vcry.; different, and the ,/• i; pcoploinqwjwerii generally bettor off. Ho -W."O measures which the 'k';tt had introduced,'-: %'£. l-nnd'lho.-Sltercd-conditione which had Ijct-n -SK :l)roiigl>£snbout."i'?lie rcl'arred particularly .'v: , :: , : , ,. , ;.l«i4lief!MUon:ilisalio!i of Uie wa(x?r |>o\ve'r'V."i'? .oijjtho'jDominion,/■which, he said, \vo\iid;.':.; , . ;)jp..:'anjpon;-AThe,effects of it were incou- i! i;;ft '.ceiynble^iHeS »vcnt ou to speak of tue'^iC: 1 'ffrea't-'iirosiierity , of Southland, and. enii-'-yv? amidst cheers tmd <ii)-^: : S^ ,! then presented with 'iiix":"is. MlHi'iiiiuatcd"-oddross <xmtaiuing '• phi>to-:.-.:iSi- ; :i;raphs "of. the scenic resorU of Sotitlilau'i," i J?-Vi ;;ind ! ;llie;;'siKnatiires of the;.banquet coni-fcis: inittce;":S'': , . . . ■ ■'; ':'->

v.j'J'ho^Prime Minister, in a. brief speech,\*t?;|f'■<! Sir Joseph r ard'e uame was C4ft-i..« Lfiiiiious tlivoiighoiit the Empire. Them "jV!;\ ■'.were some puny intellects who had tried ' ■' ~ U";:;i: : .toV-frnstrato the efforts of their diitiiv.' ,SX:& Ruished guest, but the difficulties of souk . men were made to bo converted unto step- "•■'■;>:■"■; ■piiig.stoues. Sir Joseph Ward's Dreud; 'XH4. nought offer had marle'Eiirope pjiiw, and ■"<;■;■; his name was indelibly itnprmted in the ... ;-/'.i historj- of tlie Empire. ■, • \'::T>J .:■■ Tho Hon. J. A. Hanan referred to Uie party spirit and projudico which doiuin-- ; ft:-/.?.: ated the politics of tho country, and es-' pressed the desire that it should be clear- ■ ■y.; : J:..,i od away, and the government of the couu<. &■/.'s_ try! be placed'on sound democratic lines; ■■-■■ - i: J3M