London, Jan. 22, As yot It is very diMeuit to adjust our ideax to the conception of the Prince of Wales as King Edward VII. The popular idea of him as the gay, light-hearted boy, whose happy diplomacy was not 'a" little enhanced by his surprising youth, dies hard, Yet already a great sympathy for him is. visible, He who essentially loves human companionship has sud~ dently become the loneliest man in the country, However affectionate he may be with his brothers, their relationships to him cannot but be affected by his new estate, His mother will be very near to him, but even she cannot give him every thing, besides which there is. the difference of age between them, Already people are speculating as to whether he will marry, No one could be to him now what a wite might be, But where is she to be found? Neither he nor anyone else could tolerate a manage de conven King 's training Is unique, "He Kenows the Empire and foreign coun-ries, the high places and the humblest of his own land, its slums and workshops as well as ts palaces and playgrounds. Ho might exclaim, with Col, Geraldine, "It Is not for nothing that I have been for years the companion and pupil of. the bravest "and wisest potentate Europe." He is thoroughly In tune with the spirit of the age. Was not his ying to London this morning, the frst ight ever made by a Bri ish monarch, an omen for the now reign?
In recent years His Majesty has been far less in the public eye than formerly. Tt is easy to guess why. Since the tate King's illness in 1028 it was, off course, no secret in the Royal Family that he was a very delicate man, that he always had to carry a tube in his side, that any breath might prove fatal." And with this constant shadow before him, one may well imagine that the Prince, his heir, deliberately withdrew. as much as was possible into private life, to prepare "himself for the charge that was handed on to: him January 3—Death of Archbishop Redwood, of New Zealand.
January 'B—Mine workers strike in January Z—Lord and Lady Bat Powell visit Sydney:
February. 10—Western Australian Ming Workers restive. work after fx weeks "stele:
The first experimental flight of the German Lutthansa's aerial trans-Atlantic service, was made on Friday shen a seaplane, Samum, flew from Las Palmas to Ponto Delgada, on the Azores, The 900 mile trip was
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