FURTHER REFERENCE IN THE COURT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 6

FURTHER REFERENCE IN THE COURT.

THE GRAND JURY. ! "K STEADFAST CHAMPION OP THE EEOPLE'S LTBEETIES." When the Grand Jury had finished their inquiries info the criminal cases placed before them in the Supreme Court yesterday, they made reference to the death of the King, "i The Foreman (Mr, Gerald Fitzgerald) said that the Grand Jury desired to put on record their full sense of the lament-, able loss that had come upon the nation in the death' of King Edward. In this distant part of the British Empire, the people were not permitted to know much of the King, except what they might gather of his Majesty's public acts, and what they might learn of his Majesty by reading./ However, they had <a deep and abiding conviction that not only had tho late King 1 been wise enough to aocept counsel which would result in benefit foT his own people, but he had-had strength enough to decline advice of an opposite tendency. The nation mourned the piassing away of an illustrious Sovereign, and a steadfast' champion of tho people's liberties. The late King was known to be broad-minded and sympathetic. Being filled with the sense of a great loss, the jury desired to mourn with the rest of the community. They also desired to record their deep sympathy with the lato King's widow, Alexandra, "We would not surrender tho duties with which your Honour's Court has entrusted us," added the foreman, "without unanimously intimating our continued loyalty to his Majesty, King George V. We trust that his public acts will never fail to reach the exalted level set by his illustrious father, and that tho new King will maintain the sa'me proud position in the minds of his ■ people as the late King. Although, sir, our sphere may perhaps not extend beyond the confines of this Court, our constant prayer in Tepard to our new King will be that his aims may always bo noble, and that his influence may always -be a gmde towards peace." _ _ ■

His Honour the Chief Justice replied, Baying: "I thiank you for the presents tion you have made, gentlemen, and shall aojuaint his Excellency the Governor with what you hawe said."