SIR JOSEPH RETURNS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 390, 26 August 1911, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH RETURNS.

A STRAIGHT SRKECiI. REPLY TO CHITICS. [nv "'Ki,i iOvai'h.- -i-a.sss AsMTi rniix, ] Wellington, I'bis Hay.' The Euapebu did nut. arrive (.ill ten o'clock last night. The ITinemoa. willi a p.'irt.y of Parliamentarians and friends, wont out to moot the incoming stcanmr aw! did not r-'turn till midnight. Sir Joseph Warn', in replying ;o the reception tendered him, made seme strong remark? ahout the attacks made on him while he was away, and said he was going to justify everything he had done. The thing that troubled him was (ho manufacturing of false slatenmnts. lie had no' purchased an estate- in Ksse*, and had never negot iafod for one. nor had Into set aside TaO.OiMt for his son, on taking his title. Tin's (j(le was conferred on him wi{limit asking, and without any '-ecommeudaf ions hoing made through the ordinary channels-. He did not intend io take the lii;;h Comm issionership. either before flatter the general election. tie had

accepted no position which would taiu him out of New Zealand. Neither Sir Kobert Stout not Sir John Findlay would bo the Hi;;h Commisisoner. The latter was ;:oirur to a seat, in the Lower House.

Sir J. Findiay also spoke, savin;; the position he now held had been obtained without solicitation, but; for such merit as ho possessed. At thene.\f. election he would s;o hack to private life or take a seat, in the Lower House. K not wanted there, he would cheerfully ;;o baric, to his profession. Perhaps ncuv (hoy were bade there' would be less offensive criticism. It. was easy to be offensive to people who were not present.