THE ROYAL TOUR
PRINCE'S LAST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN THE WEST INDIES By Telesraph-PrcEa Association-OopyrlzM Bermuda, October 3, The Prince closes his ever-memorable Royal tour to-day. His last public engagement was .attendance at a church parado of the Royal Sussex Regiment, in the beautiful grounds on the summit of Prospect Hill, wlioro tlio garrison troops are stationed. Tlio Prince qould eoo spread before him tho whole of the island, on which stands Hamilton, the capital of tho {[roup, which has been in British possession sinco Shakespearo'e time.' Local opinion holds firmly that SLakespearo derived tho inspiration for tho opening ,6cenes of his comedy "Tho Tempest" from the shipwreck of Sir George Somers, who discovered the "stillvexed Bermoothes" by the sitaplo process of being wrecked on the island in his ship, the Sea Venture, while on a voyage to Virginia in IGO9. The Bermudians have just celebrated their tercentenary as a colony with representative institutions. One of the most remarkable acts of tho local House of Assembly was that it prohibited the importation and' use of motor-curs in tho colony. The'prohibition includes motor-cycles, and horse traction provides tho only mean 6 of transit. Carriages for liiro aro expensive, also slow; but many Bermudians express 6at isfaction with the enactment. The process of Americanisation is going forward rapidly in Bormuda as well as in some of the colonies in tho West Indies Group, notably Trinidad. There are many American business people in Hamilton; and American coinage is accepted ns readily as British. American tourists are welcome visitors, and many come for tli3 winter months from New York, which is only two days' steam away. American influence on the fashions and the ijianner of speech is vory observable in l several islands of the West Indies Group. The ancient system of administration by military Governors with local legislative bodies having much circumscribed powers te plainly ill-adapted to cope with tho increasing Americanisation of these ter« i.tories. ' The Princo will drivo to St. George's Tlarbour. and will embark on the Renown this evening, to sail for Portsmouth.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 8, 5 October 1920, Page 7
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347THE ROYAL TOUR Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 8, 5 October 1920, Page 7
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