OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7858, 28 June 1905, Page 2

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

TT7T ' A Brilliaft Ctremonj. V (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 2T. The third session of\ the tificeDlh I'arli anient Was opened iby ,thc Governor th s afternoon. The attend* mi-jo of tho pubKc in the, vioiiJity of Parliament Huildings vui the lurgest that haft boin seen In nspnt .veure, nnd the ntilitary portion of the ceremonial wn» an ft much larger neale on account Of tho b't& muster of Llue-jackets from; 11. M.S. Challenger and the lodil school cadets. 'the scene on the lawn in fiwnt of the buildings, where the military contingents were drawn up, was a ivery picturcs»|ue one. AH available space in the Legislative Council ChauUjer was filled to

overflowing. As His Excellency lefl Government House for Parliament Buildings, escorted by a troop of the Heretouneu Mounted Rifles, tAo D Battery nred a salute from tho Esplanade, and the Garrison Band' ployed tho National Anthem as His Excellency arrived at Parliament Buil&ings, The Vice-ltegal party included, besides .his Excollency and Lady Hun ket, the Hon. Kathleen Plupkcl, Captain Braithwaite <A.D.C), Captain Bingham, and Mr Waterfleld (private secretory).

RESOLUTIONS OF REGRETT. ! When Parliament settled down u, I the usual 'formal' busmen* tbis afternoon, both Housew passed resolutions regretting tine death ol Sir Alfred Cadumn and Mr Ucorge FiltfW. In the Council ttoe Hon. V/ignun, and in the House Mr Flafcroangave notice to move the AUdresß-in-Reply. The debate in the Uouso will bo taken to-morrow., but the Council has adjourned till Thursday.