HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL.
Agreeable to the expressed wish of the Princess of Wales, Her Majesty advised the celebration of Hallowe'en at Balmoral on Oct. 2.9. The Princess of Wales greatly desired to see the solemnisation of the festival in full character. It was a very grand display. It began shortly after dark. There could not have been less than from three to four hundred persons present at the festivities. These consisted of gamekeepers, gillies, servants, and tenants, with their wives and families, on the royal estates. One brigade of torchbearers emanated from the Castle, another, and perhaps the larger, started fron the head gamekeeper's house, and when the bodies joined there could not have been fewer than at least *wo hundred torches. Tbe night* was fine and dark and still,, and heightened tbe splendour ofthe brilliant display, wnich perhaps has never on any previous occasion been eclipsed at Balmoral Castle. At the head of the procession, wbioh marched through the grounds in beautiful array, preceded by the Queen's' pipers playing lustily on the national instrument, were the Princess of Wales, the young Princesses, and the Princess Beatrice, each of whom carried a flaming torch aloft. Arrived at the Cattle, and the several circuits having been made by the company, the Princess Beatrice and the Princess of Wales approachedthe huge pile erected ori the Green, on • the west side of the Palace, and applied A tbeir torches; As the blaze mounted, y the torchlight dance' commenced around the flaring crackling mass, in the - presence of Her Majesty, and the :- Princess of Wales, the Princess " Beatrice, as well as most ofthe ladies J and gentlemen of the royal household, "*'•■*] enaged heartily in the dance. Refresh- . I ments were liberally supplied during the ' ; AAy proceedings .Scarcely had the dancing Ayfi aba*ied when V there ;broke within the >l circle of light :a •fantastically dressed -M company in charge - of the " Witch yjlm enthroned -.pri an improvised carriage, Am and preceded* by -musicians The eorPeq&^t ,s?As9k?Wssk*&MATk*s*d round it and S round "it ag'aih^hd at length pitched H ;her sable witchship inta the '.bß^jtigvll mass. ' . -A-AAyAyA'AAAyyAM
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Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 188, 15 February 1878, Page 7
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351HALLOWE'EN AT BALMORAL. Clutha Leader, Volume IV, Issue 188, 15 February 1878, Page 7
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