M.U. MOVEABLE COMMITTEE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3775, 21 August 1883, Page 4

M.U. MOVEABLE COMMITTEE.

Tho Nottingham Guardian publishes tho following report of a speech delivered by Mr Acton Adams, of Nelson, at the banquet in connection with the visit of tho A.M.C., Manchester Unity, to Nottingham:—Mr Acton Adams rose to make an address, and ■was received with applause. He was quite sure tho Order in Now Zealand would tako recognition of the way in which they had extended their kindness to him that nMit: and he was quite sure tho Order there would also tako it as something metre than an honor that one of the greatest of their social institutions should bo conducted in New Zealand on tho same basis as it was, in England. He did not know how fur the tie between England and tho colonies was valued at Homo, but that tie in the colonies was valued very much. Perhaps there was rather more sentiment in it than anything else, because "distance lent enchantment to the view," but sentiment, as the late Lord Boaeonsfiold once wisely remarked, was "an actual factor in the human affairs." He (the speaker) was sure that sentiment was exercised in a beneficial manner throughout the Colony which he now spoke of, and throughout the colonies with which he was more or less acquainted, and which were associated with the most magnificent empire the sun ever shone upon. —(Cheers.) Various gentlemen had spoken that evening of tho way in which Oddfellowship had prospered, and nobody was more pleased than himself to have been a member of their Order for many years, and to have seen that assembly so much more numerous than at Cheltenham fifteen years ago. Not only was tho Order extending throughout England, but everywhere. In New Zealand in every village with its thousand inhabitants there was an Oddfellows' lodge. It was only by tho la.stmail from New Zealand that ho saw that, one of their leading statesmen (their Colonial Treasurer) had taken the cra/e into his head upon the question of national insurance, and had made his periodical tour throughout tho country, just as the Premier of England might have been on a stumping tour in Midlothian.—(Laughter.) They in New Zealand would meet the question much in the same way that they in England were proposing to meet it. That was with resistance. He did not know whether they would succeed or not, for of course they had more poverty to deal with in England than they had in Now Zealand, but ho was sure the colonists would succeed in rejecting such Government control. In consequence of foreign countries gradually their doors more and more against English manufacturers, ho believed that the time would come when the colonies would give them three-fourths of tho outlet for English goods. Ho was sure the colonies would cling to England if England would only cling to the colonies.—(Loud applause).