THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2121, 6 November 1890, Page 3

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The Home correspondent of the Argns writes that HB.H. the Prince of Wales’ racing accounts show a deficiency for the season of several thousands He states that the Prince’s income fits him like a shell, and it takes Sir Dighton Probyn and Sir Francis Knollys all their time to make both ends meet at Marlborough House under ordinary circumstances, without having to provide a supplementary budget, representing 7 to 8 per cent, of the Prince’s whole income, to pay his racing debts and losses at cards. Even in a small matter like a loss at whist (says the Argus) there is a delay in paying. The Prince merely bows to you on rising, though, of course, a cheque arrives ultimately, after being signed and countersigned in a manner which leaves a painful impression of the anxious care which is devoted to the engineering of the royal finances. This is scarcely a satisfactory state of affairs for the British public. It is not very long since the British House of Parliament voted a considerable sum to pay off the debts of His Royal Highness, which had been gradually increasing; and on that occasion he was generally supposed to have promised to be good in future. It is all.Vory well for those who regard all comment on the doings of royalty with a certain holy horror to protest that the Prince has so many expenses to meet. Those expenses are amply provided for by a yearly grant of £40,000 (with an extra £IO,OOO to his wife, which she, at any rate, knows how to utilise), iu addition to which he receives the revenue accruing from the Duchy of Cornwall, which averages £60,000 per annum* An annual grant of £26,000 <^ aß a j ßo made in 1888 to tbo Prince’s children. If the Prince cannot maintain his household properly upon this income it is quite time he dropped whist, and horseracing and took to ha’penny nap and skittles.