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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, CARTOON OF THE PRINCE. NEWSPAPER COMMENT. (Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. Tho “Daily Express” protests against tho extraordinary cartoon of the Prince of Wales in Max Beerbohm's exhibition in the Leicester Gallery. The Prince is depicted as a wretched old man, whitehaired, and standing torlorn before a table in a registry office looking disconsolately at his bride, a woman in gaudy clothes. His suit of coarse worsted hangs like a sack. The picture is entitled : “Long in choosing” and “Beginning late.” Beerbohm add ; an inscription, purported to he an extract from a newspaper dated November, 19—? “Ail interesting wedding was quietly celebrated at the Registry Office when Mr Edward Windsor was united to Miss Flossie Pearson. Ihe bridegroom, as many of our elder readers will recall, was at one time the wellknown Heir-apparent to the late King George, lie has for some time been in residence at Balmoral Castle, Lenin Avenue, Ealing. The bride, who is still on the sunny side of forty, is the daughter of his landlady. The “Express” comments that Bccrhohm, as a rule, is humorous, hut in this ease his humor has deserted him. The public does not object to goodhumoured caricatures, but when one takes the Heir-Apparent to the throne, and lampoons him. it is doubtful whether the public will relish the effort.

PRINCE OF WALES’ REMARKABLE WEI.COM E. (Received this dnv at 11.10 a.m.) 'LONDON, May 29. The Prime of Wales has received one of the most remarkable welcomes in his life, On arrival at Rotherham, where he commenced an industrial tour of Yorkshire, lie walked with prominent persons through tens of thousands of people who were regulated by the police or harriers. When he entered his ear he was surrounded by enormous crowds of excited girls and women, who climbed on the footboard and touched the Prince’s arm shouting “I touched him.” The car was pushed for. some distance by the cheering crowd, but it eventually got clear.

ECUMENICAL COUNCIL. (Received this dav at 12.45 p.m.) ROME, May 29. It is stated that the Pope intends to mark the . customary Catholic Church Holy Year in 1923 by convoking an Ecumenical Council. This Council will he a eontiiuiation of the Vatican Council of 1370, which was interrupted by political events and whose labours have never really eoneluded. It is expected that nearly all the Prelates of the Catholic world will make ft pilgrimage to Rome. Tiie Council will last several months.

KAISER IN NEW ROLE. (Received this dav at 12,45 p.m.) LONDON, May 29. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent states that the ex-Kaiser’s latest achievement is a complete and elaborate introduction to the Bible, which has been submitted to tlio Synod of the Evangelical Church to decide on the publication of it.