IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 29, 3 February 1904, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THS KING'S SPEECH. Be lations of Russia and Japan. ; Terences to New Zealand Legis- j 54 latioa. (Received 5.55 a.m.) LONDON, February •?. TK rirst session of the present year j ~, by Their Majesties the King in person. Ur ae crowd- lined the route from Mkfatfuun Palace to the Lous,- ot JKind Their Maje-ues were loudly Fredas they passed m .tale through jfgeminster. Inside mc House of Lords, the scene one of great splendour and magnijcenee. I After His Majesty had delivered his ~,-ch to lb. House of Lords, th- Gentle- , la Oner of the Black Rod summoned I Z gentlemen of the House of Commons j ,": the bar of the Upper House where . ihe uaual speech was delivered by the i Sm ?' ,11 Eis Majesty made a very guarded allu- j .ion to the'present relations existing ietwean Great Britain and .Tapan . | After stating that the foreign rela- j Hons of Great Britain were satisfae- ; -orv iii- ilajesty went on to say that j J 'nation watched with concer. the j Japanese and Russian negotiations. TIM Go-emment, said the King, would jladiv afford any assistance that could Lniily be ren-ered towards arriving at a pacific solution of these unfortunate ' ouheuities. j His Majesty was gratified by the Par- j [laments of the Commonweal b and New i Zealand having given effect to the Naval Wreement, and by that oi New Zealand lii'viiis sanctioned a preferential tariff. The"King returned to Buckingham Palace through an avenue of enthusiastic ( spectators. At the King's request no forecast of i ue Royal speecc was published in the j newspapers. j