THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 154, 23 January 1869, Page 5

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.

The own correspondent of the New Zealand Sun, writing fiom London, on the 2nd November says:—“l may mention that the Duke of Edinburgh is off on his two years’ cruise, of the which I advised you in a former letter. It will interest you, however, to learn that the programme has been materially altered, and now stands as follows :—Leaving Plymouth this morning, the Galatea makes sail for the Cape of Good Hope, touching at Madeira en route. She is expected at Cape Town by the end of December, and after remaining there a few days the Prince will steer his course for Swan River, Western Australia, which he will reach about the close of January, 1869. Early in February he will leave for Sydney, calling at Adelaide and Melbourne, which will occasion a delay of probably eight or ten days; and about the middle of March the Galatea will make for New Zealand. She is timed to reach Wellington about the end of March. From Wellington, the head quarters, the Prince will doubtless visit the more important towns and places of the Middle Island. The time allowed him in the colony will admit of this, as he will not leave Auckland (his last place of ‘cull in your colony) till the latter end of May. From Auckland he will sail for Yokohama, in Japan, which will be reached about the end of June. He then returns by way of the Gulf of Pechili, Hong Kong, Manilla, Singapore, and Penang, and proceeds to Calcutta, to he I’eached by the end of October The return voyage will be continued by way of Trincomalee, Point de Galle, or Colombo, proceeding thence by way of Mauritius to the Cape, which will be made, it is expected, by the middle of April, 1870. Another stay will be made there, after which the Prince will call at St, Helena on his way to old England, where it is calculated he will arrive about the close of July, after an absence of a year and ten months, and a trip of something like 39,000 miles.”