THE KING OF PORTUGAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14685, 19 November 1909, Page 5

THE KING OF PORTUGAL

WARM WELCOME IN LONDON. ARBITRATION TREATY RENEWED. Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, November 17. Kin? .Manuel of Portugal had a cordial reception in London. Ho luneheoned at j the Guildhall, where a civic address was presented to liim. Ulftll liriuin and Portugal have renewed their treaty of arbitration for five years. King Manuel has been created a Knight of the Garter. At the beginning of August King Manuel, the 19-year-old Sovereign of Portugal, received u personal letter from King Edward inviting him to visit England. The Lisbon journals, in announcing tho visit, expressed great satisfaction, and suggested Ihe ■ possibility that the marriage of the young King would be discussed during his stay in England.

The Lisbon assassinations of February 1. 1908. brought Dom Manuel from a naval training college to the throne. He is of dark eyes and hair and pale skin, and has outgrown si tendency to delicate health which marked his boyhood. lie is an active and well-litlill: .young man. whose privsiqiio already shows tho 'traditional embonpoint of Lis family. His face habitually expresses a smiling good loni|vr

His character has inur-h cf the charm of his mother, Queen Amelia, (o whom he is tenderly attached. From hoy. too, come a strong iovo of lxwks and artistic tastes--tho young King sketches, and is an excellent pianist. -He was always inoro studious than his late brother, but his linforo.-o-'ii call to the throne neowsitatel the acquirement of much fresh knowledge. Ho has tucrefore. applied himself to a sti" - o iis coitßi of Rludy. Professors from th- i'niversity of Comibra and various technical colleges at Lishon lecture before him daily Home and foreign affairs aro explained to !>">' by his Ministers, and ho reads in several languages, perusing tho chief Portuguese and foreign newspapers each momLess devoted 1 0 outdoor jjames than his ■• .o biothcr, Iho-joung King, is yet, like ve L"" cnth ."si"«c lawn tennis ™?V V nny" y rU '- eS out on "orsebnefc. His faioi rite lower ,s tho orchid. His pots ths CIW h V'!* * Danish boa' Taguf: a " Insfl lcrrier Mmcil

Oom Manuel emulate King Alfonso in v n '" ,S for " lot . or »'S-nt i brisk nam for profereiico-despife the indifferent VrPla>? b.idgc- for a short tune after riinn-r Many rumoi.-rs 0 f Dora Manuel's Tie rob have been sp,™d from timt\in 0 ta J«e named as the ftituro Queen of P„.