LORD DUDLEY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9130, 1 July 1908, Page 5

LORD DUDLEY.

BANQUET AT HOTEL CE3IL.

Received June 30, 9.15 p.m. LONDON, June 30

f A banquet was tendered to Lord Dudley at the Hotel Cecil, and was the largest and most representative Australian gathering held for many years. zhe Earl of Crewe (Secretary of State for the Colonies) presided, and in proposing Lord Dudley's health, warmly eulogised his Irish viceroyalty, as evincing unbiassed judgment which should prove valuable, in view of the office he was t> fill, which was one of the highest in King Edward's service. He paid a tribute to Lord Nort.hcote's tact and bountiful hospitality, ably seconded by Lady Northcote. He sail that Australian politics are not always very closely followed or quite properly understood htre. Ausiralia desired to remain the norm; of the white race. That desire had some times been misunderstood. Me would never allow the motives of Australian statesmen and people to be misinterpretedif ho could h-lp it. Australia had undertaken perhaps the hardest part of all the white men's burden—that of administering territory peopled largely by a native race. In that, task he wished her every possible prosperity. The Colonial Office did not underrate the difficulty of such tasks, nor w*s Lord Dudley's coming task devoid of difficulty.