An Address to Her Majesty.
[By Telegraph.] (Pt'/- Press Association.) Wellington, This Day. The Citizens' address to Her Majesty states :—" This colony and our city of Wellington were both formed in the early years of your Majesty's reign. We have ever been loyal to the great Empire of which we form a part, and though separated by half the globe from the centre of the Empire and the home of your people we claim from your Majesty the privilege of testifying our union with your subjects in all parts of the world, in gratitude for the constitutional rights granted during your reign and for the means by which without derogation from the greatness of your position as head ot the English nation your statesmen have preserved and widened the splendid heritage and tradition of English freedom."
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Hastings Standard, Issue 321, 13 May 1897, Page 3
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136An Address to Her Majesty. Hastings Standard, Issue 321, 13 May 1897, Page 3
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