OVERSEAS CLUB

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 5

OVERSEAS CLUB

AN IMPERIAL GATHERING. By Telegraph—Preee Association—Copyright : London, May 25. The Lord Mayor opened the London headquarters of tho Overseas Club, which now has a membership of 120,000, at a luncheon at the Waldorf Hotel. Among those present were Lords Stanhope and Meath, and tho Agents-Gen-eral for tho Australian States. Lord Northcliffo (President "and founder of tho club) read telegrams , from the Duko of Connaught, Mr. Deakin, tho Lord Mayor of Melbourne, tho Governors of New Zealand, Tasmania, and West Australia, and the branches in New South Wales, Brisbane, Melbourne, Wollongong, and remote places like tho Falkland Isles. Lord Selborne and Lord Buxton (the Governor-General Designate of South Africa) proposed and supported respectively tho toast."Tho Dominions." Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia) and the Hop. Thomas Mackenzie (High Commissioner for New Zealand) responded. ( ' LOYAL EMULATION. (Rec. May 26, 6 p.m.) London, May 26. At tho Overseas Club luncheon, Sir George Reid (Australia), responding to the toast of "Tho Overseas Dominions," said that if they really wanted to get loyalty at a high grade of tho thermometer, ■ they had to go to tho Dominions. Tho Ho'n. T. Mackenzie' (New Zealand) declared that Now Zealand was nioro loyal than Australia, and liad always set 'her the example.