CAUSE OF THE ROYAL VISIT.
“It is useless any longer disguising the fact,” writes a leading London weekly, “that the Duke of Cornwall and iork is making the voyage to Australia for the benefit of his health, which has not been at all satisfactory of late.” I f this be correct (writes “Bo,yet” in the Australasian) the Duke had bettor “switch oft \ictona altogether. There is a course of dinners and lunches to go through ihat would destroy an ironclad, to say nothing of levees, addresses, processions, receptions, foundation stones, and the combined school speech day. Tho voyage of the Ophir may set him completely up again, but still it will require a strong man to tackle the programme we have so nicely arranged to fill in every spare minute of the twentyfour hours. Why, the manual labour alone of making the knights will oe a heavy day’s work. Of course, ho may get assistance from the Governor-General who could do the laying on of swords while the Duke took over the “Rise bir Blankety Dash” business. Captain \\ a.could present the prises, while the other aides in led the newlymade knights to tie door, and whispered them to “mind the step.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 May 1901, Page 4
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201CAUSE OF THE ROYAL VISIT. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 4 May 1901, Page 4
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