THE NEW KING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9098, 16 March 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE NEW KING.

A HEARTY WELCOAIE FROAI THE WORLDS PRESS.

Iho _.mg is without doubl the most travelled monarch the world has seen.— Express. i His Alajesty is the first of a new dynasty, which will probably be known OS the dynasty of Saxe-Ooburg. Tho new Sovereign is the first nobleman of his Empire. He is now confronted with the lofty and arduous duty of proving himself a ruler: on. the throne. It -is -to be hoped that the world is the richer for a prince of peace.— Neves Wiener Tagblatt, Vienna. ; The King will know how to follow the example .of his mother. Alay the freshness of body and mind which accompany him on the Throne long preserve him. May his rule be long and fraught with blessing. — Koelnische Zeitung, Berlin. _England's best solace m her hour of trial is the conviction that the dead Queen leaves behind a successor who will follow faithfully, m her footsteps.—Matin,. Paris. Many have noticed his perfect courtliness and utter absence of pose, qualities which Parisians so much admire, m the majesties of the world. But to-day the man gives way before fhe Sovereign, and it is the Sovereign we should like to know. — Figaro, Paris. "Whatever tact and good nature, sound rseiyse and broad sympathy can contribute to the making of an ideal King, whatever grace and kindness can effect to render a Queen popular, we may count on finding m the Royal couple who are to maintain the : traditions of the English Court.— Standard. '■'■''__.'■ "His instinct for what is judicious m public affairs is quite extraordinary. He is a piaster of the art of being punctiliously correct without appearing to be and his judgment on any public matter has rarely offered opportunity for criticism, even from the less restrained of critics: — Yorkshire Post. *~ The new King is well known m Paris, and as the Prince of Wales was a warm sympathiser with France and made many warm friendships among Frenchmen. It is, therefore, to be hoped that he will do much to smooth relations between France and Great Britain, until they return to the frendliness of the days gone by.— Soleil, Paris. , . v "His mind is extraordinarily quick m seeing and seizing a point, and it has been a question with those whose iiltimacy enabled them to judge whether he, the late Lord Randolph' Churchill, or the Earl of Rosebery, possessed the. nimblest intellect.—Liverpool Courier. The Prince, who has already behind him a long. and active life, succeeds to a heritage such as no man has ever come iuto before him. It is an EUipire which is, perhaps, only exceeded by China m point of population, but m extent, might and wealtb is unrivalled, that Queen Victoria, Empress of- India, leaves at death tojiftr son and heir.— Petersburgen Zeitung, St. Petersburg. "The King steps ; naturally and amid general acclaim into the vacant place as one who has with rajre tact and self-re-pression served a long and dutiful apprenticeship to the Throne, and has proved, under exceptionally frying tasks, his fitness for the larger task which now devolves oh him. — Bradford Observer. The new; KiiJg is well and favorably known throughout the civilised world. He is a man with a natural, taste for peace, and there is good reason to hope that he will do all that may be m .bis power to maintain pefc.ee so lonjoj .as he can do so consistently with preserving the honor of England. Austria at anyrate now salutes inthe new King the friend of her Empire and dynasty, and does so warmly aW v with the sympathy bf th* entire," world. — Neve Freie Presse, Vienna.