ABANDONMENT OF THE PROJECTED VISIT OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH TO NEW ZEALAND.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3354, 16 April 1868, Page 3

ABANDONMENT OF THE PROJECTED VISIT OF H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH TO NEW ZEALAND.

The following appears in a Provincial Qovernmmt Chaette, published lMt evening : — Superintendents Office, Auckland, April 15, 1868. The Superintendent publishes for general inform* tion the following communication \rbioh he has this day received from his Excellency's Private Secretary, in reference to the abandonment of the projected visit of his Koyal Highness Prinoe Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, to this colony. J. Wilmamson, Superintendent.

Government House, April 14, 1868. Sir,— l am direoted by his Excellency the Gover- ' nor to transmit, for your Honor'i information, the enclosed copy of a notification whioh is to appear m the General Government Gazette.— l hare, &c, Algernon Lbmpbiibb. His Honor the Superintendent.

Government House, Auckland, April U, 1868. His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified for general information that on the 11th instant, he received a letter from the Duke of Edinburgh/stating that hi. Koyal Highness had been unanimously advised by his medical attendants that the rtate of his health would not permit him to venture on the fatigue, which hi. proposed visit I to New Zealand would entail. His Royal Highne.. at first oombatted this opinion, and finaUy yielded with great reluctance to the strong representations of Commodore Lambert and of bis medical advisers, who combined to urge the necessity of his immediate return to England. . ,_ . His Koyal Highness desires that it may be made known both to ths colonists and to the Maori 3 that he feels deep regret and disappointment at having been thus forced to abandon, on the present occasion, his proposed visit to New Zealand. His Royal Highness had looked forward with great pleasure and interest to his reception both by the Europeans and the native. ; and had fully intended to carry out the programme submitted to him by the Governor, which inoluded visits to the native districts, and to all the principal places in the North and in the Middle Island.