PARLIAMENT’S SYMPATHY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2305, 25 November 1925, Page 9

PARLIAMENT’S SYMPATHY

CONDOLENCES WITH THE KING PASSED BY BOTH HOUSES. [By Electric Cable—Copyright] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received Tuesday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 23. Mr. Baldwin, in the Commons, in moving that an address be presented to the King, sympathising in the death of Queen Alexandra, said all would ever remember her with grateful affection for the love she Inspired in all classes. On looking back on the late Queen’s life, nothing was more striking that the way she Identified herself with the people and country immediately she landed. Hers was a personality which Impressed everybody. Every member of the House felt himself in the position of the mother’s son and in that spirit, sent their deep and heartfelt sympathy and the King, who was bearing the sharpest yet tenderest loss, to which the son of man is heir.

Mr. Macdonald, in seconding the motion, said; “We have felt for two generations the presence of this lady of very sweet graciousness, humane consideration and simple tenderness of heart: one revealing the dignity of Royalty and the close kinship of humanity. Whether in the glowing blaze near the throne or in the more subdued lights of widowhood, she won. our hearts that spring day in 18G3 and kept them to the end.” Mr. Lloyd George said: “It is fifteen years since she reigned as Queen, but she still held the throne of the people’s hearts, because she had all the graces and charms that fascinate people. Her whole life marked that charity which thinketh no evil and believeth all things.” Mr. T. P. O’Connor said that as father of the. House, he hoped to be allowed to add the voice of Ireland, which loved her for her tenderness and sympathy. The motion was agreed to in silence, members standing. In the House of Lords, Lords Salisbury, Haldane. Oxford and the Archbishop of Canterbury voiced the sentiments of the House in a resolution of condolences in the death of Queen Alexandra. Many peeresses, in deep mourning, sat in the side galleries. N.S.W. ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS. (Received Tuesday 9.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, November 24. The Assembly, having carried a motion of sympathy with the King on the death of Queen Alexandra adjourned for a day as a mark of respect for the late Queen. LATE QUEEN’S SISTER. NEWS OF DEATH CAUSES COLLAPSE. (Received Tuesday, 7 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 23. The Dowager Empress of Russia re. ceived news of Queen Alexandra's death bravely, but later collapsed and her condition is causing anxiety.