THE KING'S TOUR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 107, 4 May 1903, Page 3

THE KING'S TOUR.

INIHGBUSTIC KBOEPHON AT PARIS Per Press Association. Received 3, 4.47 pjn. Pabib, May 2. Nothing could have exceeded the splendour and cordiality of Eing Edward'* welcome to Paris. Tumultuous enthusiasm was displayed by the enormous, eager crowds which thronged the streets President Loubet, attended by members of the Ministry, received Eing Edward at the Bois de Boulogne sta-1 tion, where a' great military pageant was arranged. | King Eiward prcceeded in the same carriage as President Loubet to the British Embassy. He was given a continuous ovation en rovie, cries of "Vive le Roi" bring intetmiagltd with eheera for the President, the army, and the republic. These demonstrations' were reoewei on tte occasion of Eing Edward's visit of half an hour to the El> see, and again when. President Loubet fetched Eing Edward in his carriage in the evening to a special performance at the Theatre Fnneaise, where Madame. Loubet oo> eupied a seat on His Majesty's right. Illuminations in the city were general. The moving crowds on the boulevards were similar to those in London on Coronation night. King Edward expressed himself as highly gratified at h : s reception, not only by the head and official representatives of the Republic, but also by the public at large. Received 3,4.47 p.m. Eing Edward, in responding at the Embassy in the af frnoon to the British Chamber of Commerce sddre-s of welcome, said he was glad to thins: the growing ioteres's they represented would strengthen Britain's branches, and the" ties of friendship and mutual respect which had distinguished the relations of the two countries for nearly a century past. He added: —" Divine Providence h*s designed France to be our near neighbour, and I bops always our dear friend. There are not two countries in the world whose mutual prosperity was mora dependent on each other." ■He belUvd ell differences between them bad been removed and forgotten, and he trusted the friendship and admiration they all felt for France would develop in the near future into the warme-t aihetion and attachment between the people of the two countries. The achievement of that aim would be his cons'ant desire. Loudon, May 2. The French res : dents in Leicester Square, Soho, decorated the stieetsin honour of Eing Edward's visit to Paris.