PRINCE OF WALES

Grey River Argus, 21 April 1925, Page 8

PRINCE OF WALES

AFRICAN TOUR. I ONDON, April 19. A telegram from Minna (Nigeria) said that the Prince of Wales left Kano this morning on route to Lagos. His first destination will be Tdaban. The intense heat slightly affected some members of the Prince’s stnNT, though in no wav seriously. A telegram from Kano says: Crowds have been swarming into night long. Scenes during the morning were, amazing. Streams of plodding visitors were visible on all roads for miles, resembling converging armies of nuts. Tin* Emirs have already congregated for the. Durbar. Most of them travelled hundreds of miles accompanied by hosts of retainers, many of whom died from the intense heat, disease, and jungle accidents en route to the Durbar. Al right in the morning, there was u wonderful cavalry display. It was n case of horses c\orywhore. Twenty thousand were ranged in horse shoo formal ion. all flaunting the gayest Colon rs. Camiuol’on \\-;> hushed on the arrival of the Prince of Wales, complete silence being a Hausa token of respect. Then a band of the Nigerian regiment crashed a stirring march followed by the rolling of hundreds of native drums. Tho Prince, seated on a dais covered with multi-coloured canopy captured in the fighting scA'enty years ago. watched the parade of infantry and artillery, then the Ihnir’s troopers charged with lances and swords drawai, halting spectacularly two feel from the dais.