THE PRINCE OF WALES' DAUGHTERS.
A difficult nnd delicate question oonoeruing the Royal Family la, writes a London correspondent now under the consideration of tho Govornmant. The daughters of the Prince if Wnlea are of marriageable ago, and the quaßtlon ia the familiar one of Parliamentary provision. There are some who think the matter had better be settled without delay, while others are m favor of allowing it to wait antil there is some matrimonial engagement, and that then it stiould be brought before the House of Commons m the usual form of a Message from the Grown. Mr Gladstone, who ia hifhly versed m all questions of royal procedure, ia understood to hold that a Select Committee ehould be at once appointed to consider recommendations to Parliament with regard to what he has termed secondary provision for members of the Royal Family, and the Government has accepted this policy m principle, it ia not likely that Parliament will consent to make provision for the younger members of the Royal Family other than the children of the Prince of Wales, or that even this will be done without prospective reference to the next settlement of the Civil Lißt,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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198THE PRINCE OF WALES' DAUGHTERS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1804, 2 April 1888, Page 3
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