COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 19 June 1902, Page 3

COLONIAL PREMIERS AT HOME.

PKB PBBSB ASSOCIATION. London, June 17. Lord Harrowhy, of Sanden Hal 1 , Sifioidshira,t will entertain the Colonial Premiers on the 21st June. ANNUAL NKW ZEALAND DINNER. Received 18,10.45 p.m. London, June 18. At the annual New Zealand dinner, Hon. W. P. Reeves presided, and theie were present Lord Stratbcons, Sir Edwyn D. wes, the variom Agents-Gene-ral, Sir Westby Percival, Oolo'e's b'omoaervitle, Pole-Penton, Pi arce, Portir, Captain Seddon, Sir Walter Buller, Messrs Montague Nelscn, Qeorge Beethao, and 350 others. Co!onel Oradock responded to the toast of the " Fore? a of the Coleny." Loid Ouslew propos d the "Prosperity of New Zetland," and referred to her unexampled tuccess, advanced Initiation, and the compatibility of her Radicalism and Imperialism. Rehiring to the war, bis Lordship laid Britain's contingent for the front was 315,000 mer, and New Zea land's (proportionately to population) wis equivalent to 360,000. England's liberal re-settling of the Boeis would be made more liberal still to loyalists.

6PKKOH BY MR BKDDON. Received 19,0.12 a.m. London, June 17. Mr Seddon bad a magnificent reception at the New Zealandirs' dinner. Io a fpeech bristling with s'a'istrs, be tho wed the prosperity of New Zealand, the stability and saf*ty of her mining and other investment?, and the beneficent results of recent legis ation. There vraß little crime and no pov.rty The leve of the people Lr the Motherland bad nothing tordid in it. He bad prompted the preferential trade resolution, and its cemmunica'inn to Mr Chamberlain in Dectmbt r was proof tbatit was not connected with the corn t«x. Mr Seddon avowed himself a Fair Trader. American expor sto New Zealand during the la-t five years h»d quintupled. There w«s nothing, apart from kerosene, to previ nt Great Britain supplying four-fifths of tine goods imported by the colony. The dieprop>rtion of England's impo'sand i sport; was n fleeted in the r. mtancea of gold abroad. Senator Shaw'* Pittsburg speech was proof of New Zealand'? foresight in regard to the an-oexa'ion of the Cook and other islands. H>r moito was :" Be watchful." H> was optimistic as to the willingne-s of the co'oni'S to gra-1 trade ]><■< !ere> ce tn tbe Motherland, on the b sis of his proposals. They wished in li-'p th Motherland, and wer<j asking fur no thing; but anything given, even indirectly, that would ttrengthfu \h<colonies, would iquilly strengthen the Empiie

COMMENT BY THE TIMES. BectiTed 13,1.10 a.m. London, June 13. The Times, without prejudicing thpract!C&blane>B of the arrangeaieat contained in Mr Seddoo's tesoiution of December, eays i'. embodies a gsneiou? offer.