Last Saturday the King, accompanied by the Queen and Princess
Victoria, opened the new Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff. The enthusiasm was very great, and the King declared afterwards to Sir William Lewis that lie had had "a wonderful week, and that the climax was reached at Cardiff." The replies of the King to addresses, and the letters to Lord Bute and the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, are further examples of his Majesty's unfailing ability to say the right thing in the right way. Loyalty is not only rewarded but created by such warm expressions of personal interest. The King announced his intention of establishing a new decoration, bearing his own name, to be conferred on those courageous men who risk their lives to save others in mines and quarries. A knighthood was conferred on Mr. W. S. Crossman, the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, and an active representative of tabour. Sir W. S. Crossman confessed to some preliminary misgivings about his new honour, but we are glad to learn that these have disappeared, and that his fellow Trade-Unionists for the most part take the very right view that the King wished to honour Labour, which.nowhere has a more strenuous manifestation than at Cardiff.
