Lord Milner.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3654, 2 June 1906, Page 3

Lord Milner.

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"Five hundred and fifty guests were present at a banquet to Lord Milner at the Hotel Cecil. Hundreds of applica dons for admission were refused. It was a most representative gathering, including many peers, commoners, commercial men, and others famous in Science, literature and the professions.

Mr Chamberlain presided and read cablegrams from Fad Gray, twenty - eight Dominion Commoners, and all parts of South Africa, sympathising with the object of the banquet and expressing gratitude for Lord Milner’s services to South Africa and the Empire. Mr Chamberlain, in an elaborate eulogy, declared Lord Milner was one of the great assets of the Empire, and it was most unjust for the Liberals, with a temporary majority, to pass an unmerited slight on a great public servant. Lord Milner expressed his gratitude at the maui testation of confidence and sympathy. He believed the strong instinct in the heart of the nation was too treat public-servants with broad generosity, to judge their work as a whole, and make allowance for difficulties.

Lord Cur/on eloquently proposed the toast of “ Our dominions beyond the sea,” and insisted that Unless we were prepared to make sacrifices for the Kmpire it was an empire only in name.