EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 May 1907, Page 3

EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS

JIB. BENT AMUSES A GATHERING. SPEAKS SOME TRUISMS. Received 2(itli, -t.ii' p.m. London, Mav 25. Addressing 400 Ealing scholars on Empire Day Mr. Bent, Premier of Victoria, referring to the enthusiastic demonstra tions in Mr. Botha's honor, declared thai Australians would not have shouted themselves hoarse and fluttered while handkerchiefs, hut would have remembered the sorrowing widows, the wooden legs, and the armless men in their midst. He hoped Mr. Botha would keep his promises, and the Transvaal would provein the future a good friend to the Motherland, as Australia had been and was.

Referring to 'iiis kiddie guard of honor," Mr. Bent declared that thousands of Australian cadets were willing to show the stult they wore made ot if the Empire needed their services.

The children sang "Rule Britannia, Mr. Bent causing great laughter bv declaring his belief that Britons were the biggest slaves of the lot.

UNPRECENTED ENTHUSIASM IN ENGLAND. Received 26th, 4.54 p.m. London, May 25. Thousands of school children particpated in the Empire Day rejoicings, which, in London and the provinces, were carried out with unprecedented cnthsiasm and scope. g DEMONSTRATIVE STRIKERS.

DISPERSED BY TROOPS. Received 2ft hj, 4.54 p.m. Pretoria, May 25. The Rand strikers, disregarding an order forbidding them assembling, six or more, within 300 ya -ds of the mines, marched, across to the Croesus mine. The police Kept then off until a squadron of the Queen's Buys arrived. The crowd refused to disperse, whereupon an immediate older was given to charge. This surprised the strikers, who fled-