NEW ZEALAND DINNER.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, June 18. At tho annual New Zealand dinner, Mr W. P. Reeves presided. Lord Strathcona, Sir Edwyn Davies, tho Agents-General, Sir Westby Percival, Colonels Sommerville, Pole-Ponton, Pearce, and Porter, Captain Seddon, Sir Walter Buller, Sir Montague Nelson, Mr George Beetham, aud 450 others were present. Mr Docat proposed, and Colonel Cradock responded to the toast of the forces of tho colony. Lord Onslow proposed tho prosperity of New Zealand. .Ho referred to the unexampled success of advanced legislation, and tho compatibility of Radicalism and Imperialism. Great Britain's contingent at the front was 315,000. New Zealand’s, proportionately to population, was equivalent to 360,000 of England’s. Ho advocated the liberal re-settling of the Boers, but they should be more liberal still to the loyalists.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 448, 19 June 1902, Page 2
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