OVERSEAS NOTES

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 22

OVERSEAS NOTES

When the King was in London he found time to discuss with several of the officials more closely concerned the programme for Court entertainments for the coming London Season (says a London paper). It is possible to state that, so far as the Courts and Levees are concerned, these will follow the normal procedure, There are to be four evening Courts in all, and, following the custom of recent years, these are to be held in pairs, the first two taking place on. successive evenings toward the end of May, and the others in June, probably in the week that intervenes between the Epsom Summer Meeting and Ascot. Whether the King will hold his Levees in person or not. this year has not been decided at the time of writing, but, unless something quite unforeseen should arise, he will certainly be present at the Courts once more. He also hopes to attend the ceremonial Trooping of the Colour of the Brigade of Guards on the King’s birthday in June.

Price Arthur of Connaught, who has just celebrated bis forty-seventh birthday, and was for many years a sort of “general utility man” of the Royal family, and was called upon to undertake all sorts of duties in all parts of the world.. This was in the days when their Majesties’ sons were too young for public engagements, and he once humorously remarked that he was seriously thinking of having come cards engraved bearing the words, “Monarchs understudied on the shortest notice.” He made one of the best and most popular Governor-Generals that South Africa has ever possessed, and both he and Princess Arthur are very affectionately remembered out there. They have lately built themselves a charming little country house in a hill-top in Sussex, and here they are hoping to give.a “bousei warming” presently, to which many of their friends are to be invited. . It was always his Royal Highness’s ambition to follow his father as a soldier, but his fate called him in another direction, and he may yet be found called Upon to fill a public office of very considerable responsibility.

For the first time in British road racing, women have been officially recognised in the* Royal Automobile Club’s tourist trophy race over the Ards Circuit in Northern Ireland this year. An official stated that it had been found that a number of manufacturers had in their racing departments women who were very valuable in keeping statistical records. The regulations therefore prescribed that. “Female attendants in entrants’ pits will be permitted this year.”