FAREWELL TO MOW ZEALAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 152, 28 June 1901, Page 5

FAREWELL TO MOW ZEALAND.

QUITEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL

(TIE DUKE'S FAREWELI

MESSAGI-

(Py Telegraph.—Press Association.)

DUXEDIX. Thursday

in splendid weather the Itoyal party took their departure from the [.ernlull Club, through streets densely thronged. The route was lined with volunteers. mounted troopers and infantry being placed alternately. There was great cheering as the Duke and Duchess passed. STATUE OF THE LATE QUEEN.

': They proceeded to the Triangle. i where a platform was erected over the foundation stone of the Queen Victoria memorial statue. Sir Henry Miller. President of the Memorial Committee, made a speech, in which be eulogised the late Queen. The Duke then laid the stone, and said:—Sir Henry .Miller, Ladies and lleirtlemcn, —The Duchess and I will remember with pleasure that the last ceremony in which we look part before leaving Dunedin, or, [ may say. before leaving Xew Zealand, was the laying of the first stone of a monument lo our great and everlamented Queen, whom we all so dearly loved. Yes, we are glad to lie thus united with you in doing honour to the memory of her. who, during a reign unparalleled in history, ever strove for the welfare and prosperity of her people. We are right to perpetuate that memory by the highest powers of the sculptor's mind and hand. May not each of us also strive to raise up in our hearts, and. indeed, in the hearts of the nation, an ideal based upon the noble example ol" her life. In bidding you farewell we sincerely thank the citizens of Dunedin aud the people of the province of Otago for the warm and friendly welcome accorded to us. We shall leave your beautiful and hospitable island with deep regret. We shall go away with the hearty cheers of your people still ringing in our cars, bearing in our hearts grateful and unfading recollections of the happiness we have experienced at their hands. Kia ora. DEPARTURE FROM DUNEDIN. The Duke and Duchess, amid enthusiastic cheers, drove to the railway station, and said good-bye to the Mayor and others. The Duke expressed to Mr Denniston the extreme pleasur|_ the Dunedin visit and the hospitality extended to him by the Otago people had given Him. Their Royal Highnesses presented Mr Denniston and Milt. Chisholm. Chairman of the Reception Committee, with autograph photographs.