27th January.
Tae better relations which have been happily restored between the peoples of Great Britain and of Germany will add point and heartiness to British salutations to the Kaiser to-day. The years that go by, as they increase the pride of all good Germans in their sovereign, raise also the admiration and true respect in which His Majesty is held throughout Europe asa wise and far-seeing ruler, ere have been times within the past few months when the attitude of Germany has been the determining: factor in European politics and when a single false step might have been disastrous not only to his own nation but to his neigl hours as well. No one has ever a cused the Emperor William LI of failing to know his own mind, or of lacking the courage to act upon his opinions when formed; impetuous he may have been sometimes, but his actions are those of strong and resolute statesman whose heart and soul are in the building-up of the inheritance bequeathed him by is grandfather and Bismarck. Tohim look, on this, his forty-sixth birthday, as a staunch friend of that peace, which a less strong-willed monarch has been more apt to preach than to practise. With genuine congratulations we join our German fellow-residents in the Settlement to-day in their wish " Long Live the Kaiser."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.