The Royal Visit.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 151, 18 May 1901, Page 1

The Royal Visit.

Caps Town, May 14. Sir 6. Sprigs, Iho Gape Premier, hau h fmrned the Corporation of Cape Town that the city’s reception to the Duke *qr York must be represeniative of the whole colony. He expressed a dou’Jb whether, in view of the plague, they would come. The Government would take every care if they did come tha't they would not encounter the smallest cl-mger. If t here was any possibility oi risk ha would inform the King, The Government is urging the Capetown Corporation to take strenuous stepc to cleanse tho city. ■ s Bkisuanb, May id. The a<jting Premier regrets the possible alteration of the Duke of York’s programme, It came as a complete surprise and upset all arrangements, will cause keen disappointment. If the Royal party do come overland it is proposed to proceed from the railway station to Government House in a clo-ed carriage, board cha Governmeiji yacht, and go down the river and land, and thus they would be able to out the.original programme. * Melbourne, May 15. It is possible that the Royal party wili not leave here till Saturday, as there is a probability that if the Ophir gees tc Brisbane she may be quarantined oo.hexreturn to Sydney as having come from an infected port. In order t > avoid this, it is likely that the Ophir will wait at Sydney, the Duke going overland from hero tc Brisbane. Wellington, May 1,5. A further, complication has arisen over the route of tho Royal procession. Tire Manners str-efc tradesmen now refuse tL * ... - rj decorate unless Cuba street is included in tha programme, and wili wait on the Premier tins afternoon on the subject.' The Chinese here have raised £IOO the erection of an arch in the city on tho occasion of tire Royal visit? ' ' :,>1 The Premier told a deputation Qf Manners str .et traders tb-day that the Royal pr ceaaion would go via Mannere street, and that he would arrange, for tlie Duke to pass along Manners street on th*o way to lay the foundation stone of the Town Hall on the following day. * fr *