DINNER ON OPHIR.
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Received 11.37 p.tn.. April 17. Sydney, April Iff. At tho invitation of tho Orient Company’s manager, a large and influential gathering, including Mr Carruthers, Sir Joseph Ward, and Mr Jamas Mills dined aboard the Ophir. The speeches tcpre congratulatory of the resumption of the mail service.
Received 1.2 a.m., April 18.
Mr Carruthers, in proposing Sir Joseph Ward’s health, ashed him to convey a message of good feeling from the people of New South Wales to the people of Naw Zealand. Sir Joseph Ward, responding, eairt he hoped Mr Carruthers would visit Naw Zealand. He suggested as a practical step to the cementing of good feeling between New Zealand and New South Wales the reciprocity of such articles as wou.d not prove injurious to either country. There was plenty of room for the increase of business between the two countries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1433, 18 April 1905, Page 2
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