ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED.
Presentation of Marlborough’s Address of / Welcome. Express Office, April 13th 6.30 p.m. The Prince arrived at Wellington on Sunday morning last at 11 ‘3O a.m. The following telegram has been transmitted to us for publication : Wellington, April 12, 5,15 p.m. Mr. Eyes, the Superintendent of Marlborough, presented the following Address of the Inhabitants of Marlborough to the Duke of Edinburgh to-day at a levee : “ To His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh : May it Please Your Royal Highness—The Inhabitants of the Province of Marlborough, in the Colony of New Zealand, beg to convey to your Royal Highness, upon your visit to this portion of the Dominions of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, their most hearty welcome, and to express their warm feelings of loyalty and attachment to your Royal Mother. “ They believe that your visit to New Zealand will tend to strengthen and cement these feelings among the inhabitants ; and will add another strong link to the chain that binds them to the Parent Country,
“They congratulate your Royal Highness upon your complete recovery from the effects of the wound you received in Australia, and feel gratified that you have so soon afforded the people of New Zealand an opportunity of conveying personally to yourself their thankfulness for your preservation, and of proclaiming their Loyalty and devotion to their beloved Sovereign, and deep feeling of affection for yourself “ They rejoice that your Royal Highness has reached this Country in safety, and hope tour through the Colony may proveinteresting and agreeable, and that a beneficent Providence may watch over you for the future, and may preserve you in health and happiness, and guide you back with renewed strength to your native shores.
44 W. H. Eyes, “ Superintendent. « On behalf of the Inhabitants of the Province of Marlborough."
His Royal Highness replied as follows : Gentlemen,—! thank you sincerely for the address which you have presented to me, and for your expressions of loyalty and devotion to the Throne and person of her Majesty; for myself, lam gratified to you for this welcome to your adopted home, and in return wish you every prosperity.
The Governor afterwards invited his Honor Mr. Eyes to meet the Duke at dinner on Wednesday.
The Duke will probably leave here on Saturday [l7th].
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Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 171, 17 April 1869, Page 4
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384ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED. Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 171, 17 April 1869, Page 4
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