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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2523, 9 June 1909, Page 5

C A BLE NEWS.

Mr. Birrell, in a humorous speech, proposed “Our Guests.” Mr. Kirwin (West Australia) replied to tho toast. After listening to the. Budget Rebate, the delegates and the ladies accompanying them, motored to Marlborough House, where the Prince of Wales gave a -garden party. The King and Queen, and. Prince and Princess Nashimoto, of Japan, were present. In the evening Lord Derby, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, the Hon. Harry Lawson, Messrs Moberley Bell, Spender (editor of the “Westminster Gazette”), Donald (editor of the “Daily 'Chronicle”), and Kennedy Jones (director of ifcho Associated Newspapers), enterfamted a party of delegates at dinner. Afterwards they attended Lady .Salisbury’s reception at Arlington Rtreet, where there was a brilliant leathering of politicians and aristocrats. SIR JOSEPH WARD’S MESSAGE. [Per Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, June 8. In response to invitations from the .editors of the London “Standard” and London '“Chronicle,” Sir Joseph Ward sent congratulatory'' cablegrams regarding the opening of the Press Conference. Ho stated New Zealand rocognised.the immense importance of thle conference which would make powerfully for the hotter understanding and mutual interest of the Motherland and oversea dominions, helping to establish an miproved land perniciiicnt basis for true Imperialism. The opening of the* Conference was another portentous mark of the ever increasing solidity of the Empire. Ho believed the Conference would result in effective co-operation of the press throughout all the oversea dominions in the cause of true Imperialism and in all great movements to make to that end.