LORD MILNE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1759, 26 May 1906, Page 2

LORD MILNE.

APPRECIATIVE BANQUET,

By. telegraph, Press Ass’n, Cocyrigl

Received 12 1 a m„ May 26. Landoo, May 2l

Five hundred and fifty guests wero presaot at tbc banquet to Lord Milner at th- Hold Cecil. Hundreds of applications were refus-d. Ladbs thronged tbo balconies. It wss a repie c native gathering, including many peer*, Gommcirr», com-m-.reiai men,and otfce s'a-mous in science, bteraiurr, and tbe professions. MrCbambeildn, presiding, read a cablegram from Earl Grey and twenty eight member of tbe Dominion House of Representatives and all parts of South Africa, sympathising with the objeot of tbe banquet, and expressing gratitude fur Lord Milner’s sen ices to Scuth Africa and the Empire Mr Ch9mberlaiD, in' ad elaborate eulogy, declared that Lord Milner was one of the great assets of the Empire. It was most UDjuet of Liberala to advise a temporary majority to pass an unmerited slight on a great public BervaDt. Lord Milner expressed gratitude at the manifestation of confidence and sympathy. He believed there was a strong instinot in the heatt of tbc nation to treat pnblio servants with broad generosity, judge their works as a whole, and make ailowanoe for difficulties

Lord Curzon olcquently proposed 11 Oar Dominions Beyond the Sea.” He insisted that unless we were prepared to make sacrifices for the Expire it was an empire only in name.