THE KING’S ADDRESS TO NEW ZEALAND.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 February 1901, Page 4

THE KING’S ADDRESS TO NEW ZEALAND.

(per press association.)

Wellington, February 5.

The following message was received tonight by His Excellency the Governor from the King “jo my people beyond the sea: The countless messages of loyal sympathy which I have received from every part of my dominions over the seas testify to the universal grief in which the whole Empire now mourns the loss of my beloved mother. In the welfare and prosperity of her subjects throughout Greater Britain the Queen ever evinced a heartfelt interest. She saw with thankfulness the steady progress which under a wide extension of self-government they had made during Her reign. She warmly appreciated their unfailing loyalty to Her Throne and person and was proud to think of those who had so nobly fought and died for the Empire’s cause in South Africa. * I have already declared that it will be my eonitamt enctaavour to follow the great

example whicn Has been bequeathed to me. In this endeavour I shall have a confident trust in the devotion and sympathy of the people and of their several representative assemblies throughout my vast colonial dominions.

W- h uch ioya> npp T will, with God’s blessing, solemnly work for the premotion of the common welfare and security of the Great Empire which I have now been called to reign. ”

(Signed) EnwARD R and I, 'Windsor Castle, 4th February. ”

Lord Ranfurly’s reply to King Edward state that the New Zealanders desire to humbly thank His Majesty for his gracious message, and to assure him that, come weal or woe, they will ever bo ready to prove by action their true loyalty to His Majesty and the Empire to which they are proud to belong.