THE OPENING CEREMONY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13461, 28 June 1907, Page 7

THE OPENING CEREMONY.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 27. The third session of the sixteenth Parliament opened at 2.30 thia afternoon, with, the usual ceremony, and there was not any exceptional interest manifested on the present; occasion. The Governor, preceded and followed by cavalry, drove, .up to the Hoijse between volunteer guards of honour, and to the booming of guns, but the spectators were fewer than customary, probably owing to the Weak, drizzly weather; and sloppy condition of ""the streets. Inside the Legislative Council Chamber and in the galleries the ladies were largely in evidence, and in the neighbourhood of the Chair various Consular representatives, in resplendent uniforms, lent additional brilliance to the -"-gathering. Everyone listened anxiously for the "great secret" indicated by the P^emi^r last,.nighir,/and there, was a quiet -fiprpwse jrianifestftd when^it was . Announced thart the colony was henceforth to assume the dignified title of

Dominion. * ■ -*>, ■> " The opening pToceefiSigS; occupied half an houx- /»^._ *4—