THE KING OPENS PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 36, 16 February 1901, Page 2

THE KING OPENS PARLIAMENT.

• A STATE PAGEANT. GREAT MILITARY SPECTACLE. ADMINISTRATION OF THE OATH. SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. Received 15,10.29 p.m. London, February 15, The opening of Parliament was a pageant, and agroit military display. The Kin; and Queen wote crowns. The Princesses and Prioces war* grouped on either side of the throne. The Oohiuioob when summoned came with a rusk, only a few bsing aocommodatod in the chamber. The Spsaker attended in his Kfcate robes. Tord HilKbui-y (tho LirdOh»nc»llor) idmi lbtned ttie oath of adjuration, and tho runt; sigiieJ (In declaration against tratiKuhi-fctrit'ati'inK, then, donning his kit, all btindiujr, in a clear firm voics ha read thj following spt ech: "My beloved mother during her g'orious reign set an example of what uionarclis should be. My earnest defite is to w»J* in her footsteps. Our relations with Foreign Powers are frie»dly. I greatly regret the less of life and treasure due to the fruitless guerilla warfare maint lined by Boer partis*iu. Thoir early submission is much to be desired in their own interest, as until Hiibmisdion has been made it will bo impossible to establish in Jhose co'o. ni»s iusMtu'ions ascuriog the rqui] rights of nil whites, and the proteotion of nnd justice to the natives.

The war has involved an inestimable inc ease in the estimates. The demise of the Uio-vn renders it uec ssuy for ranewed provision of (ha civil list. I r pkci unreservedly at >'.ir.r disposal th«i hwedi'ary revennei m) ' by my pradecessor. . '•"•:.•.■ proclamitjon of the Coaroonj »■ :it of h»s be»n mtdo amid in ty maaifestifcong of popular authtttI i.)sin at J rejoicing. My mother assented t'j tho D'iko anl Ducbeuof Y'i-k opening the first Parliament. iTaough gepara'ion from my son at tha present cannot b* o'herwinß than deeply painful, I still d sire to give I effect to the la'e Qudeo'a wished. Aa tvinc'ng her interest, and my own, in nil that concerns the velfme of ray subject beyond the seas, I dacided the visit should not bo fib.ndonid, but that t should be extended to New Zealand and Canada.

Tne lodian t.ro-pi and naval foroM largely contributed to the release o! 1 h«< Legations, and the submission of China.

Th-3 prolongation of the war led mo to make a further cill on the patriotism at.d devotion of Cuuidit and Australasia, aod I r*jjico to say the request tn-t with a prompt and lojal respinse." Kyferrenco wan made to the t-igoal ■hiccups of the Ashauti campaign, and to the eutlVrng and mortality cau»»d by ihs drought in India. Though greatly •llrvi-ttid it wttH null serious ia the Bombay province. Propusils to be submitted to Pariamont includfl measures for in■•e\nr:; tiit e:litioncy of military t'>i„ -'iner.dment of tl o ■"■ •'■■ ••■ ' ' .'■• : '■ • '-.L., WAV

nupply; the pretention of drunkenness ; and amendment of the law regarding literary copyright. The King and Queen resumed their «eats amid comple.e silence and then left. A slight chi 1 prevented the presence of the Duke of York and Princess ' Victoria at the opening of Parliament, j IMMENSE CROWDB. INYALIDED COLONIALS GIVIN A < PLAQB. s THB GREAT STATS COACH USBD. ' IMMENSE ENTHUSIASM. THE 6CEME IN THE HOUSE OF » LORDS. * Received 15,10.63 p.m.) 5 London, February 15. t! The ceremony was brilliant and 3>t<Stureequ9. Immecsa crowds asseui- q bled in pall Mall, Whiteh..ll, a „d I around the approach totbeHou-es of p Parliament. 6i

As a mirk of honor, Strathcona's Horse gutrded tbe route near Buckingham Palace.

The invalided colonials were assigned a place in the route. The King and Queen rode in the great State coach which has not been used fer forty years. It was drawn by eight cream horses. The King wore a Field Marshal's uniform, the riband of the garter, and a plumed hat. The Queen wore an ermine cleik, a! email diamond crown, the riband of the garter, and a veil. They were greeted with immense eatbusium, and bowed continually, A stately procession was formed in the robing room and proceeded to the House of Lords, the King, in a magnificent ermine crimson robe, leading the Queen by the hand. Every inch of the Howe of Lords traa crowded by an immen-e concourse of black-clad and black-feathered Possesses, including the Countess of Banfurly, Tbe centre of the Chamber was a mass of ermine and scarlet.

The Agents-General occupied the Royal Gallery. The Queen's throne was a little lower than the Kings.

(Received 14, 9.31 p.m.) Loidob, February 14. The strictest sicray Teas ob served with reference to the contents of the King's speech at the opening of Parliament.

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