PRESS DELEGATES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 109, 8 June 1909, Page 2

PRESS DELEGATES.

TilKllt DOINGS IN KNU-LA-VD. London, June 0. Hie I'resi delegates arc to lie tie ( guests of Air. Lloyd-George at breakfast ut Downing StruL-t on Tuesday. The Admiralty, as a menieuto of the 12U1, is preHenting eaeii delegates with a handsome volume of photographs of a Dreadnought in full gtcaw,a submarine on the surface, diving, submerged, aid beached, destroyers at top apeed. alio photographs of battleships and of gun practice. . 8

LORD liOfciljliKKY'K SI'EDCH ACCLAIMED... Received June 7, 10.20 p.m. London, June 7. The Uovvrnment and Opposition newspapers proclaim Lord Rosebery's speesdn to be a " tour de foice."

The Daily Mail save the speech it an inspiration of the Iroader patriotism, und will tend to hasten the day wheu the tax on knowledge in me Empire will by reduced, and the cable*, whicj are veins and arteries of the Empire, will flow free and unfettered.

Tlie Radical newspapers commeit oil the passage wherein Lord Rosebery auggested that "the unprecedented warlike preparations might lead Europe buck to barbarism or cause a catastrophe," whereat working men cry, " we will have no more of this madness and tomfoolery which is grinding us to powder." The delegates lunched at Burnham Hall. Biiun Beuconsfteld and met Lyttelton, Sir Oorgv Uoldie, and FieldMarshal Grenfcld, and nlterwards were the guests of Lord Deahorough at Taplow Court. They motored back to Losdon. Rain marred the trip, A STATE-OWNED CABLE.

The Times Ottawa correspondent says the visit of Australasians, has accentuated the interest in the Press Conference. The agitation for a State-owned cable between Britain and Canada is increasing owing to the telegraph companies attempting to boycott the Marconi messages and contlnu dealings to the cable companies, with whom they havp fixed agreements. Received June 7, 10.46 p.m. London, June 7. Fifty ladies accompanying the delegates to the Press Conference were present at Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday and. witnessed Tree's staging of "The School for Scandal."