Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-01-23
KING EDWARD OPENS PARLIAMENT,
SPEECH FROM THRONE IS INDEFINITE

the sugar producing colonies and home
manufacturers of sugar have been UNI
fairly weighted in the prosecution Of
this important industry"
Then came the following clause:
IL have concluded with the Presi
dent OF the United States treaty, the
provisions of which will facilitate the
construction of an inter.oceaniC canal
under guarantees that its neutrality
Will be maintained, and that II will be
open to the commerce and shipping oil
all nations"
/ Next followed references to the An.
glo.Brazilian treaty to the referring
OF the British Guiana. Brazil boundary
/ questions, to the arbitr;si ion of the
/ King of Italy, to the necessity for tho
continuance of famine relief measures
/ in India and to the death of the
Ameer, whose son. Habib Ullah, has
4 expressed ain earnest desire to main
tain the friendly relations of Afghan.
istan with my Indian Empire
After announcing that the estimates
have been framed as economically as
due regard for their efficiency renders
possible in the special circumstances
of the present emergency" the speech
Legislation. of solely domestic interest
with the exception of a bill to facili.
tate the sale and purchase of land in
ireland.
Their Maiesties then retired amid a
fanfare of t'umpets and attended by
the same regal ceremony as accompa.
MED their entry into the mouse.
The crowds which lined the route
from Buckingham Palace to Westmin.
ster to view the procession we're not
nearly so large as on the occasion of
the last opening of Parliament.
Guardsmen. assisted by hundreds OF
police. kept the spectators back, but
they had little to do. Only a few at
tempts at decoration we're visible.
For once Royalty was late. and
when the King and Queen drove out
from the courtyard in front of Buck
ingham Palace they were twenty min
utes behind the time, and King Ed
ward was still struggling with an un
ruly glove.
Their Majesties were greeted enthu
siastically. AS they sat in the great
state coach, whole gilded pinnacle
brushed the boughs of the trees In
the green park. King Edward and
Queen Alexandra looked for all the
world like a iiattering painting oil
Henry VIII and one of his better.look
ing spouses. They bowed somewhat
wildly from their huge gold and glass
frame which shook and reeled on lis
I. anciept springs like a ship in a storm
. The King and Queen both looked ex
. traordinarily well. but Her Majesty
appeared to be in especially goot
health
? What with the two central figures SC
: easily seen and so gorgeously clad
, and the brilliant escort of Life Guards
whose bands kept constantly playing
e the public were rewarded for thei
. long, cold wait by a spectacle of con
siderable interest. In so far as unre
l strained public enthusiasm was con
. cerned, and 1t was nothing to what oc
+ Cured earlier in the day. when thu
e Guards reinforcements left their bar
= racks en- route to South Africa. III,
( Guardsmen tramped through tn,
7 dark streets of the metropolis at
! o'clock in the morning. accompanied
2 by an uproarious mob of civilian
). friends, singing songs to the accom-
Daniment of the band The songs an,
. music. however. did not drown tn,
crying of women. VINO chung to tn,
neck and arms of almost every maj
} of the contingent.
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