WELCOME TO MR CHAMBERLAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 64, 16 March 1903, Page 3

WELCOME TO MR CHAMBERLAIN.

A GREAT KEGEPTION. PER PEESS ASSOCIATION. Received 16,1.1 a.m. Los don, March 15. Mr Balfour, Lord Roberts, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Strathcona, the Agents-General of the Colonies and 300 notabilities, welcomed Mr Chamberlain at Waterloo Station. Though the route through the streets was krpt a secret at Mr Chamberlain's request, be bad a great reception. There were crowds, chiefly of working men and woman, at Westminster Bridge and Princes' Gate, SPSSCH AT SOUTHAMPTON. London, March 15. On Mr Chamberlain's arrival at Southampton Lord Se!borne, with a

deputation from Birmingham, boirded the Norman at 7 a.m. After Mr Ckamb : rlain's reply, which included a high tribute to Mrs Chamberlain, the Mayor and Corporation escorted him to Hartley H-iH, where an address from the Southampton Corporation was presented in tte presence of 1200 people. » Mr Chamberlain'? first words in replying were : " I warn you, in your generous appreciation of my worir, cos to over estimate the r. salts xctua'ly achieved. We cannot, in the t- i kling of an eye, undo a loDg record of v. ci!lation and weakness, but we may readily accept the Boer and Dutch leaders assuranoes to accept thi new situation,"