Their Majesties arrived here at 10.30 o'clock this morning, having. slept for the second night in sueces-Hon aboard the royal train as it sped westward from Fort William.
Extending a royal welcome to the King and Queen. ar. John Bracken, the" Premier of Manitoba, said that while the people of Manitoba did not forget the best traditions of their ancestral lands, they all_met their Sovereigns as citizens of Canada and were proud to be members of the Commonwealth of British nations, fund prender still of the ' traditions the British Crown and British Parliamentary' institutions.
The King. in his reply, said 1 the people of Manitoba, having united many races in common citizenship, might well be proud that the practice of tolerance and democratic principles had brought such splendid fruit "In my Journey westward," he de-eared, "I have been struck by the immensity of the country and by the many visible proofs of its material end social progress."
gave them the utmost pleasure, His Majesty added, to visit them and they prayed. that the people of Manitoba. might continue to prosper under' Divine biessing—Reuter.
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