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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3588, 30 July 1912, Page 5

Visitors to Rotorua had a splendid view of snow-covered mountains a few days ago (says the Auckland Star). A lady "resident of Auckland describes the landscape under its white covering as most picturesque, the higher elevations being marvellously beautiful. All the higher peaks beyond Lake Rotomaliana were snow-covered, and the panorama is described as being worth coming a long way to admire.

“Edward VII. eminently satisfied contemporary conditions of kinship.” remarks Sir Sidney Lee in his remarkable biography. _ “He inherited the immense popularity which belonged to the Crown at the close of his mother’s reign, and his personality greatly strengthened the hold of royalty oil public affection. The cosmopolitan temperament, the charm of manner, the social tact, fitted him admirably for the representative or symbolic function of his great station. A perfect command of three languages, English. French and German, in all of which he could speak in public on the inspiration of the moment with no less grace than facility, gave him the ear of Europe. Probably no king won so effectually the goodwill at once of foreign peoples and of his own subjects. Ho was a citizen of the world, gifted with abounding humanity which evoked a universal sympathy and regard.”