The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Ward) said it was a great pleasure for him to propose the toast of the guests, coupled with the name of the Commander of the Emden. “The Emden,” said Sir Joseph, “is the first warship of the German State to visit these waters since the war. I trust, however, that the welcome our guests have experienced both at Auckland and here in Wellington will have proved to them that the people of New Zealand, no less than the people of the Old Country, and of the other civilised communities throughout the world, are anxious to recognise the bonds of common humanity, and to endeavour, in co-operation with their fellow-men, to build a better and a safer world for the generations to come. Co-operation—this is the key word to much that is best in the world to-day. In the spheres of industry, of national life and lastly, of international politics, strenuous efforts are being made to put the principles of co-operation into living practice. We who are sitting here to-day, citizens of the German Republic and New Zealanders, who eleven years ago were at war with one another, are now representatives of States, Members of the League of Nations, and Signatories of the Pact for the Renunciation of War. Side by side we, together with the other nations of the world, are making a united, honest, and sincere attempt to solve the problems of international peace and security, and to make a repetition of the disaster of 1914 an impossibility. We can follow no more uplifting ideal, and in justice to those who fell on both sides, we must, in the pursuit of that ideal, be satisfied with no less than the utmost that our strength of purpose will permit.” In this connection he read the following cablegram, which he had received only that morning:—