Illness of the Crown Prince.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 237, 14 January 1888, Page 5

Illness of the Crown Prince.

. ; The, }! . Australian paperg : 4° f ".S°*> - * observe, in the least -.understand why ,the Crown „ I^rinceVi .early death 'WM ■be such a serious calamity to: JSpgland ,an# 'her colonies^, J^hejinere fact is<of course shocking.', enough, I?u,ti there,; are, besides, i political : issues fryplySP °S < a character. , The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess had firmly , ( q e *' termined their reign i should -be • one of peace and constitutional The , Crown princess is an j extraordinarily clever woman, and, being -, of a most Kindly and .beneficent disposition,' would have oxercised a much needed influence against the war party. \ Prince VVilliam, on the .other band, hates l^pfch England and Rusßia, is ominently, pugna-; oious in temperament and imbued with all .sorts of , nonsensical, ideas about the "divine right of kings." Ever since he was,, a,, boy he Jias cast sheep's eyes at the Pacific, and he may be trusted to play straight , into the hands of the/ war party. To sum /His Imperial Highness up briefly, . a greater young firebrand could scarcely, be imagined. ; , There will, it is generally conceded, be no place for the prown Princess at her ! son's court, and she and her daughters will have to retire into comparative insignificance. What this means to the able ambitious woman who had hoped to play a prominent and beneficent part in European politics I leave you to imagine. All her dearest projects seem likely to be thwarted, and by herown son. The Queen issorrowihg deeply and sincerely over the tragedy ; in fact, up to the present the Crown Prince himself seems the least moved of the family.