KING EDWARD'S TOUR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 21

KING EDWARD'S TOUR.

LONDON, April 21. King Edward witnessed a naval review from the racecourse, Malta. Me then laid a memorial stone at the new bieakwater. The naval officers arid men held a water carnival in connection with liis Majesty’s visit. There was a procession of boats at night, for which models had been constructed Gr vessels ranging u'om the Ark —with living figures representing Noah, his sons and daughter, and the animals —to the latest battleship, tno Edward VII., now being built. A white dove was released from the Ark, and after hovenng over the Royal vacht, it returned to the Ark. The full strength of the Mediterranean fleet is escorting King Edward from Malta to Naples. LONDON, April 23. King Ed ward’s projected visit to Paris is partly the outcome of the movement in favour of a treaty fm perpetuating peace and amity between Great Britain and Franco. Mr Thomas Barclay, vice-president of the Scottish Society in France, and an ex-president of the British Chamber of Commerce m Paris, is the initiator of the movement, die declares that the Governments of the two countries are only waiting a sufficient- manifestation of opinion. . . Mr Barclay adds that ail British Chambers of Commerce and forty-five unions of traders, representing_ half a million electors, support an arbitration treaty. Similar reports come from i< ranee. ROME, April 23. King Edward has arrived at Naples. His°Majesty was given an immense reception. Over three hundred thousand spectators participated in his welcome. THE VISIT TO FRANCE. PARIS, April 23. The Paris newspaper “Patrie” and other ultra-Nationalist journals are trying to create prejudice against King Edward (whose visit to France is reported to be in connection with the proposal to peipetmate friendship and amity between the French and English races). The newspapers are using the Boer 7,-a.r and the Faslioda incident in support of their arguments. The “Petite Eepubliquc,” the organ of M Jaures, Socialist loader in the Chamber of Deputies, condemns anti-English manifestations. M. Cassagnac, in an article of three columns, published in the newspaper “Autorite,” incites patriotic Frenchmen to refuse to welcome the representative of a. country which, in insisting upon the withdrawal of the French from Faslioda, inflicted the bitterest shame upon France. “Figaro” appeals to the Government to clear the newspaper kiosques and boulevards of horribly indecent caricatures of rulers of Europe before the arrival cf King Edward. M. Dorouledc, in ail excited loading article, calls upon Nationalists to condemn the hostility displayed by MM. Millevoye and Massords towards King Edward. M. Deronlcde declares that lie will not; personally hiss King Edward, who, he says is the compulsory adversary ct German preponderance, though he is not the natural friend of France. LONDON, April 24. Tn his speech in delivering the Budget in the House of Commons, Mr C. T. Ritchie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, s:vd tlio relations between France and Britain were most cordial. All hoped, ho said, that the mutual /goodwill animating the Governments and the peoples of the two countries, as shown in the cordial welcome which was being prepared for King Edward in France, would yearly grow stronger.