INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 131, 12 September 1910, Page 5

INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS

IMPORTANT MATTERS DISCUSSED. _ By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received September 12, 12.10 a.m. London, September 11. The Government gave a luncheon in the House of Lords in connection with the opening proceedings of the conference of the Institute of Journalists. There were seventy colonial and one hundred British journalists, proprietors and editors present. Barl Beauchamp presided. Mr. Henniker Heaton, Sir Edward Russell (editor of the Liverpool Daily Post), Sir Carruthers Gould (the famous cartoonist), Sir Gilgean Read (the founder of the institute), Sir Douglas Straight (treasurer), Mr. Harold Spender (editor of the Daily News), Mr. Owen Seaman (editor of Punch), Captain Muirhead and Earl Beauchamp, made felicitous speeches, and proposed the loyal toast's. Colonel iSeely, Under-Secretary, welcomed the guests in the name, of the King and the Government, and remarked that the press commanded unrivalled opportunities of promoting great causes among these as affecting the Empire. He especially commended tropical medicine. Scientists had already saved far more than were destroyed in the Napoleonic wars. He instanced Uganda, where two hundred thousand had died of sleeping sickness before remedial measures were discovered and applied, [whereas the deaths were now only 1700 per annum. ' Referring to the diffusion and discussion of news creating a better understanding between peoples, he emphasised the point that the arbitration in the Newfoundland dispute had lasted more than a hundred years, until there was well night red war. Now the difficulties had been removed, and what threatened to be a permanent _ scare had passed the region of history. Mr. Harry Lawson responded, as also did Mr. Triggs (editor of the Christchurh Press), the chairman of the Overseas Committee, and Mr. R. Mating.