THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 5 December 1910, Page 5

THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

SIR JOSEPH WARD AND DR. FINDLAY TO GO HOME. * -TWO IMPORTANT CASES. (By Telegrapn—l'ress Association.) , . WELLINGTON, Saturday. When the item of £ISOO, which appears upon the Srriplementary Estimates for experffes of The Prime Minister attending Hie Imperial Conference and Coronation, was being dealt'with to-day, Sir Joseph Ward said he had received no official invitation. A confidential communication had been foi warded, the nature of which he could not divulge. The Attorney-General would accompany him on his trip Home. Dr. Fjndlays services would be required in connection with two important case'?, namely, the Te Akau cate, involving £5U,000, and the Webster claim, upon which it had been decided to set up a tribunal to decide upon the issues raised. The amount involved, so far as New Zealand was concerned, was £500,000. The tribunal would sit either in England or America at an early date. In addition to attending to these legal cases, Dr. Findlay was also invited to attend the Imperial Conference, and to take part in the proceedings. Replying to Mr T. E. Taylor, the Prime Minister said there was a clause in the Appropriation Bill, postponing the next Parliamentary session till July Ist, 1911. Re had desired to extend the life of the present session to the second week in February, with a view to allowing the Leader of the Opposition and other members to go Home to attend the Coronation. Mr Massey explained that for private reasons he found it impossible for, him to visit England; but he wished it understood that his decision was not due to any desire to be discourteous to the Imperial authorities.