6 JULY 1901, Page 10

The Times correspondent, telegraphing from Hobart on Wednesday, speaks with

enthusiasm of the splendid reception given by the Tasmanians to the Duke and Dachess of York. They were received by the Governor-General, the Adminis- trator, Sir J. Dodds, and the Premier, Mr. Lewis, "a states- man," to quote the words of the Times correspondent, "of high qualities,"—a description which will give great pleasure to and be fully endorsed by Mr. Lewis'e many friends in England. Mr. Lewis is one of the Colonial statesmen who in their youth made Oxford a link of empire. As a Balliol undergraduate he was a contemporary of Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, and a number of other men who are now engaged in doing the work of the Empire.