PRINCE OF WALES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 June 1925, Page 9

PRINCE OF WALES.

BIRTHDAY CONGRATULATIONS

TOUR, OF THE RAND. TUMULTUOUS WELCOMES. BY CABLE- -PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received June 24, 12.50 p.m. O APETO WN, June 23. Congratulatory messages have been pouring .in at Johannesiberg • from' all over the world on the occasion, of the birthday of the Prince of Wales. Thus is the second he hn« spent in the Dominions. A deputation from the municipality magnificent gold casket, and the Chamber of Mines presented a The Prince. of Wales spent, the -morning touring thirty miles through the East Rand. He received tumultuous welcomes at- numerous: mining towns, the populations of which turned out en. masse. —Reuter.

PRISONS EMPTIED

THOUSANDS, OF PRISONERS RELEASED'.

CAPETOWN, April 29

Extraordinary scenes here- and in other South African cities marked the release to-day of thousands, of prisoners to whom clemency has been extended in view of the visit- of the Prince of Wales,

A great crowd assembled outside the gaol this, morning, in Capetown. Many Europeans were released first, then half-caste women] in tawdry finery carrying vanity bags, who went away arm- in arm singing “God Bless the Prince of Wales.” Then came hatches of coloured men and natives, some ,carrying suitcases, who were whisked away in motor-cans: by their friends. The only people left in Capetown gaol -are three men condemned to deatn and the long-sentence men.