THE ARRIVAL OF MILNER.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 May 1901, Page 4

THE ARRIVAL OF MILNER.

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London, May 27. Mr Chamberlain entertained the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Salisbury, Lady Gwendoline Cecil, Lord and Lady Roberts, and Ministsrs and their wives at a private luncheon on Saturday to meet Milner. Although the Liberal leaders were invited Sir H. H. Fowler alone was present.

Mr Chamberlain in proposing Sir A Milner's health described the nation's unabated confidence in Milner's impartiality and courage, and predicted success in the more arduous task before him of establishing the machinery which would unite and reconcile the two races, thus laying broad and deep the foundations of a united South Africa, free, prosperous and as loyal as Canada and Australia. Sir A. Milner in replying acknowledged the firm and indispensible support theGovernment had always txtended to him and the splendid devotion of the Dutch loyalists at the ludicous misinterpretation in some quarters that his holiday veiled his recall. He continued, ''We are reaching the predestined end," What had sustained him under tho weary road was his absolu e unci unchangeable conviction. It was tho only ono we could travel. We might havo had peace by self effacement, but could not have held our own by any other method than those we were compelled to adopt. He did not know whether to laugh or cry while listening to the Utopian dogmatising, It only required a little more time, patience Aid meakness. a little more of those gentle virtues whereof he knew himself conspicuously devoid of, in order to conciliate the panoplied hatred, insenstate ambition and invinsible ignorance. There was room for gentle statesmanship, provided it did not mar the conclusiveness of the final scenes of the present war. Sir A. Milner takes tho title of Lord Milner of Capetown,