Honors to the Agent-General.
(Per Press Association) London, June 27. At the banquet of the Eighty Clab, the fion Mr Asquitb, in proposing the health of the Hon W. P. Beeves (Agent-General for N.Z.), said he was the first colonial statesman guest who, despite strong opposition, had secured social and industrial reforms With a rapidity not equalled by any other community, and added that no colony bad been less inclined to accept Mr Chamberlain* scheme than New Zealand. Mr Beeves, in replying, reviewed the politics in New Zealand for the past five year** ann naid he foresaw a difficulty to solidify the Empire. The only possibility to obtain great results was to joatify any alteration in the relations.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 303, 29 June 1896, Page 3
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118Honors to the Agent-General. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 303, 29 June 1896, Page 3
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