MAYOR OF LEVIN

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 May 1910, Page 3

MAYOR OF LEVIN

EULOGISES KING EDWARD. ELOQiJKNT ADDRESS. Tho Mayor of Levin (Mr B. R. speaking at a banquet "no ihf. Druids' Hall last evening in connection with a presentation it Mr .J. J. Dunn, overseer of the ■J.jvin waterworks, alluded at some ■kuyth to the death of King Edward VII. During the last low days, ho sai \ th'.i cJMmnunity hiid rjceive;! with very deep regret tho rwws of the ud-.vAi of a beloved sovereign. AVhcn tlioy spoko about .a king, they wim-o practically speaking r'Kiut one.wli.i v. a •. iry vast ii'fliiencH—who directed a vast cmI re, ;.:,'i ":-y !:m ••■ \:--.r faithfully !!:d well his kite Majesty << -urged his regal duties. Eroin e.ury p.Li.. .. ti.i' world testimonies t) the King's greatness were forthc .'nii-ug, anil too often people were apt to I'd:yet tl'.a good or evil a t/Vereigu could do. and forget also tno constitution under which they were liiing. (Applause..) He h.ard pjuplo say that they could lire just as well under a republic. JJ.it what they had to take into c ■■iisiL..'i'al:./.i was the fact that tho present constitution was doing good f at it was maintaining the honour, tho w:.'lf:ii\\ and thu greatness of t , Empire. (Applause.) The . Empire was not going back. It vis going forward. It was pros- \; ring under monarchy, and tho p:(;ple of the Home country were deeply attached to the nionarMiial form of governmeii't. (Applause.) There was no empire that 'hnd inoreased, and" was increasing in prosperity and happiness liko the JJritish JOinpire, aiwl therefore he maintained that .the constitution was a good one, and woidd receive, fc as it was receiving, .the support of almost every citizen of the Empire When it was found tlwiffc the constitution wns a failure, they nviglit the ntalk n!l)out altering it. Tlib Majw Went on to speak of the

importance of educating tho risin;. , ; generation in tho spirit of loyalty and fealty to tho constitution, and said that ho regretted, to think there were people who sjwko >in slighting terms of that constitution. It was all very well saying the-re had been bad Kings. What ithey had (o recognise was thnt For sixty years (hey had a wonderful Queen, and that for the hist niiio years the greatest ruler that had ascended , the British Throne had guided the destines of the Empire, and that ho had gone to rest amid, the universal lamentations of mankind. Ho had been classified by the world >as a great peace-maker, and ii' they .accepted the Scriptures 'tliev recognised in the <leceased Monarch "a child ol Cod." (Applause).