BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9100, 28 May 1908, Page 5

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

THE EXHIBITION AT SHEPHERDS' S.USH. Received May 27, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, May 27. M. Fallieres attended a State Ball at Buckingham Palace. One hundred and twenty attended the Australasian merchants banquet at the Trueadero. Earl Carrington. chairman, in proposing "British and Australasian Trade," complimented Australia on the .splendid show made at the Exhibition'at Shepherds' Bush, which was by far the best yet seen of Australia's staple product, about which the King and Queen had expressed their satisfaction in no measured terms. Mr J. H. Oarruthers, in replying, said that he did not doubt, that Australia in future woud be a great trading market for Britain. He -eferred to the growth of the butter and meat industries, thanks to the great shipping companies. Britain ought to copy Germany in subsidising trade. If she did so a great extension of British-Australian trade would follow. Their Majesties King Edward, Queen Alexandra, and the Prince of Wales met President Fallieres in the Industrial Hail of the Exhibition. An inspection of the French; British and Colonial Courts followed, which, however, was necessarily brief. The Canadian Court is not yet finished, and is r.ot opened. King Edward was aelighted with the sporting exhibits, particularly the red deer from the stock presented by the Prince Consort, and also the rugs and tweeds made from New Zealand wool. Received May 27,10 .27 p.m. PARIS, May 27. The newspaper "Le Temp?" says that if the entente is.to be strengthened by the substitution of a treaty alliance for a moral understand)! g Britain must provide a modern army capable of assisting France.