WELCOMED HOME.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3306, 26 August 1911, Page 9

WELCOMED HOME.

PRIME MINISTER AND ATTORNEYGENERAL RETURN. A HEARTY RECEPTION. SIR J. G. FINDLAY WILL CONTEST A SEAT. RUMORS DENIED BY SIR JOSEPH WARD. ''vf IFEB FBESS ASSOCIATION.: WELLINGTON, August 25. Ministers and many members of Parliament and others went out by the Government steamer Hinemoa to-night to meet Sir Joseph Ward and Sir John Findlay. The Ruapehu arrived about 10 o’clock and anchored in the harbor to await the usual inspection by the doctor. The Hinemoa had not returned to the wharf ud to half-past eleven. Later .—The Ruapehu’s saloon, was crowded with visitors by the “ Hinemoa” and “Janie Seddon,” who had gone out in the harbor to give Sir Joseph Ward and Sir John Findlay a welcome home.

Both made speeches to the assemblage, thanking them for the hearty reception. Sir Joseph Ward took occasion to deny the rumors that he had purchased an estate in Essex, and intended to go Home as High Commissioner, and said that neither was Sir Robert Stout nor Sir J. G. Findlay going to be the High Commissioner. Sir J. G. Findlay stated that he would be a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives at the coming elections, and if he "was not elected, he would cheerfully go back to the profession he left five years ago.