SIR JOSEPH WARD, BART.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10404, 26 August 1911, Page 5

SIR JOSEPH WARD, BART.

ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, Last Night

Ministers! of the Crown, many miemibers of Parliament, and other®, went looit by the (Government istaamer Hinemoa to-m'igM, tto meet Sir Josepih Ward and Sir John Findlay. The Ruapehu arrivedl at about (bam o'clJack, and! andhored in. the bariboiur, Ito await the usual inspection by a doctor. The Hiniemoa hlad not returned to itihie wharf up to half paslt .eleven.

A LATER MESSAGE.

SIR JOSEPH DENIES RUMOURS

SIR JOHN FINDLAY TO CONTEST

A SEAT.

By Telegraph — Press Association,

WELLINGTON, Last Ndght.

Thie Ruapehju's saloon! was crowded with visdtoTSi .by (the Hinienioa and Jani© Seddlon, 'who had) gone out in the (harbour to give. Sir Joseph Ward, Bart., and Sir John -Findlay a welcome homie.'

Both made ispeeohesi to the (assemblage, thanking thiein for .their hearty - reception. . j Sir Joseph Ward took oocasion: to i deny the rumours- that he had pur- j chased am lestatei in Essex, and intendied ito go Home-as High .Commiisisioner. Neither. .was Sir Robert Stout or Sir John .Fiaudlay going to be, rtJhe High CVmmiiasionier. ' Sir Johm 'Findlay stated that he would jbfe la oandidiaite for a tsieat in_ the Honse of Representatives' .at the' coiming letedtpon,. If met (elected, ibe TWuM cheerfully go back to .tihie pxofaasdom he had >le!ft five yeans ago.