THE ROYAL TOUR

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2059, 20 April 1907, Page 3

THE ROYAL TOUR

ROME, April 18.

The meeting of King Edward and King Emmanuel at Gaeta was most cordial.. King Emmanuel boarded the Itoyal yacht Victoria and Albert, and the two monarchs embraced repeatedly. LONDON, April 18. The meeting of the Kings of England and Italy is causing an explosion in the German press. Sir H. C. Bannorman is also on the alert. The official view at Berlin is that the meeting need not arouse uneasiness, since Italy realises lior independence is better safeguarded in the Triple Alliance than if she relied wholly •upon the support of and France. ■'

THE >s ' The banquet in honor of th , < their ladies included-tht. %. %■ Louise, Duke of Argyll, Sir V? ''p Pamiorman, the Du'ko and «*' of ‘Sutherland, Lord and laid. <£isdowne, Lord and Lady Derby, L '’£hnd Lady Elgin, the Countess o. ' Sclbournc, Lord Knutsford, Lord Tennyson, and the Hon. Lyttelton. Subsequently a reception was hold at Marlborough House. The guests included colonial visitors at the Cecil Hotel who were not present at the banquet, Prince Alexander of leek. Lord and Lady Roberts, General and Lady Duller, Lord and Lady Wolseley,- Lord and Lady Strathoona, Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir George and Lady White, Lord and Lady Jersey, Lord and Lady Onslow, Lord and Lady Beauchamp, Lord and Lady Ranfurly, Lord and Lady Brassey, Sir George and Lady Clarke,, and the Agents-General. The Chamber of Commerce at Glasrr 0 w has invited the Premiers to visit the city. It was also decided by 62 to 3‘J that commercial union of the Empire would be most readily and advantageously established on a mutual- preferential basis.