KING GEORGE AND HIS PEOPLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9221, 25 May 1910, Page 3

KING GEORGE AND HIS PEOPLE.

A MESSAGE TO INDIA.

(By Electbio Telegbavh—Cofybight.) (feb PBESb Association.]

LONDON, May 24. Kin" 1 George, in a message, expressed hcartielt thanks to the Princes and people of India on their touching and abundant manifestation of loyalty to the Crown, and personal attachment to its wearers. . , The messago recalls Queen Victorias and King Edward's messages to Indian subjects, and adds: "These arc charters of noble benignity of the spirit of Imperial rule. By that spirit in all my time to come I faithfully abide. I confide in your dutiful and active co-opera-tion in the high and arduous tasks before me, and count upon the ready response to earnest sympathy with the wellbeing of India that must ever bo an inspiration to my rule." His Majesty announces clemency in granting remission of sentences.

THE OVERSEA DOMINIONS. (Pee Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 24. The Prime Minister has received, through his Excellency the Governor, the following telegram Irom the Secretary of State for tho Colonies: —

"His Majesty commands me to convey the following message for publication: — "To my people beyond the seas: — The innumerable messages of kindness from my loyal subjects beyond the seas have deeply touched my heart, and have assured mo that I have in full measure their sympathy in the great trial which has befallen men and them, and that my sorrow is their sorrow, that wo share a common loss. The happiness of all his people throughout hi» Dominions was dear to the heart of my beloved father. For them he lived and worked, and in their eervice he died, and I cannot doubt that they will hold his name in grateful remembrance. I am now called to follow in his footsteps and carry on tho work which prospered in his hands. As a sailor I have been brought into constant touch with the overseas Dominions of the Crown, and I have personally realised the affectionate loyalty which holds together many lands and divers peoples in one glorious fellowship. Nine years ago I travelled through the Empire, accompanied by my dear wife, and had the late King lived we should together, at his expressed wish, have visited South Africa in the coming autumn to open the first Parliament of the South African Union, the latest and greatest evidence of that peace and harmony which my father ever loved to promote. It will be my earnest endeavour to uphold Constitutional Government and to safeguard in all their fullness the liberties which arc enjoyed throughout my Dominions and under the good guidance of the Ruler of Men I will maintain 011 the foundation of Freedom, Justice and Peace, the great heritage of the United British Empire."