SOUTH AFRICA.
ROYAL PARTY LEAVES TO-DAY. ITINERARY OF THE TOUR. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 4th October. King George and Queen Mary will take farewell of th© Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia at Waterloo Station to-morrow, w-hen they leave on the visit to South Africa in. connection with the opening of the Union Parliament. The Royal party will reach Capetown on 31st October. After the opening of Parliament the visitors go on to Bloemfontein, which will be reached on Bth November. Then, after visiting Salisbury and Bulowayo, they will arrive at Pretoria on the 26th, returning thenoo to Durban on 2nd December, and arriving at Portsmouth on 26th December. The steamer Balmoral Castle, in which the party travels, is fitted with the furniture used on the steamer Ophir when the King (as Duke of Cornwall and York) visited Australia and New. Zealand. ILLNESS OF GENERAL BOTHA. PRETORIA, 4th October. General Botha is suffering from quinsy, and as a result of his illness- the rearrangement of the Union Cabinet may remain at a standstill for a week.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19101005.2.89
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 7
Word Count
180SOUTH AFRICA. Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 83, 5 October 1910, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.