ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1733, 25 April 1913, Page 5

ST. GEORGE'S DAY.

WIDELY OBSERVED AT HOME.

MetfraDh-Prcm k«aoclalion—Oooprlaht . London, April 23. St. George's Day was widely celebrated. . ; ; Hoses were generally worn. Tho Duke of Connaught attended a ■ service in tho'.St. 'Mich«el and St.' George '..■'Chapel-of St. Paul's Cathedral. '! "! ' Mr.. Watt (Victorian' Premier), Mr. . .. -'Baillieu (JI.L.C.; Victoria), the Hon. T. Mackenzie. /High Commissioner for New Inland),'. And;representatives of other ' States attended at Stratford-on-Avon, and ' . assisted in the hoisting of the. Dominions' . flags. V_ ■ ■ ... V.' ■ A BANQUET SPEECH.' < . * ' (Rec. April: 24, 9.40 p.m.). : London, April 24. / !- '"At a;St» George's Day banquet at/the 1 Hotel .Cecil, Sir Joseph i Ward proposed tho toast "India." He-, paid a tribute to, the Civil Fervice, and warmly referred . .to Lord Sydenham's services as Govemoi of Bombay and in other capacities.' He ■ said; it -was necessary that' the Dominions ; should be sympathetic towards the Indian standpoint when dealing with tho difficult '-. ' problem, of the treatment of Indians in South Africa and elsewhere. Sir Joseph' Ward added that though ono ,hun(lred_nnd fifty, years had elapsed' since British inflttenco had been established in, •' I. India.Vo were' only -a. small ,part of the' way through, the,mo=t remarkable governing scheme-the world had seen. :India's problem ;was tho Empire's problem, and ' it was difficult to say whether it would ~ over.'become a self-governing State. -. v -