"The Peacemaker."

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4399, 11 May 1910, Page 2

"The Peacemaker."

Received 10.25 p.m., 10th. London, May 10. King Edward is the only British King who died in Buckingham Palace. Mr William O’Brien, speaking in London, said the King’s title of ‘‘Peacemaker,” was a prouder one. than any amount of military conquests. Nowhere was he a truer peacemaker than in Ireland.- When the story of the great schemes of national reconciliation in 1902 and 1903 is fully told it will be found that if those benign measures of national justice and reconciliation had not blotted out the last trace of enmity between Britain and Ireland, it was not through King Edward’s lack of delicate tact and brave and generous trust in the aspirations of the Irish people. Received 10.25 p.m., 10th. Sydney, May 10. The Government has declared the 20th inst. a public holiday. It will be observed as a day of mourning.