THE ROYAL VISIT.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10988, 11 June 1901, Page 5

THE ROYAL VISIT.

■» THE FIRST OITY VISITED: AUCKLAND. THE HONORARY COMMISSIONERS. _____5 JiAORi^BTOREHOUSE. ALL IN "THE WEEKLY PRESS." In view ol tb_ hading of the Duke and jDuobeti oi Coawwatt and York at Auckland $»<_y "Tbo Weekly Pmm," to be iwued _<>-_or_aw, ha* a nmnbect of appropriate . _h_trations, not the least notable of whioh .; mc those of Auckland, the first New Zealand ._ty visited; by their Royal Highbenca. The views include the Queen's , . Wharf, where the actual landing takes plaoß, and the Goveo-nment House; and there is also a good picture of the Grand ' Hotel, at wiuoh, before its destruction by - Are, it had been arranged that the suite _._ouhl - lay. Three fine engravings we • published- ol the Royal yacht entering Syd- ., nejr Harbour, and of H.M.S. St. George '. and! H.LG.M.6. Hansa, also at Sydney. An interesting memento cf their visit to tjhis colony will bo the present from the women of Wellington to their Royal High- '■'": Irenes of the model of a Pataka, a Maori ," storebbuw, a photograph of which is reproduced in tnia week's "Weekly Press." ..The Maori* of Wanganui, in the midst '"' of their preparations, suffered a great loss in the d_stmction by fire of their meeting .. __oiw_ at Putiki, as it contained a large * quantity of the clothing of those who hod a few days before gone to Rotorua for the ~_ Royal reception. A good illustration of tho ,;.'. horu-g'i* to be found in this week's issue r of tbe "Weekly Press," which also contains b' a yrtat, many pictures of intereet to all |"'-tec tion* of the community—the Honorary . Commissioners of the Royal Reception, t__e ,*C" unfurling of the flag at tlie Lawrence High "V'i. fcchtra., the Christchuroh and Malvern '%>GoUie Dojf Tri-tls, a tmlvnf* oootsributioh '•t',|«f;,th* Mayors of New Zealand, a number of troapere at t-he front, and .v'Vfctw the "Weekly Prefp* dtetch book is "j taken the leaf representing Mr John Any. 4_r_on. of tho Canterbury Foundry. The '.! eupplips ;. varied and attractive ■'.'-'__)l«ciilo*_ of readable ai-ticlpe, and is,one ;•; -\ that New Zealandws can with a feeling ol |.', adds tend to their Honte frietxk by to- ;.. ißWrtow's San Francisco mail.