THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.
FnoM tlie following which wo tako from the Argus of the 6th inst., it would seem that His Koyal Highness left Victoria for Tasmania on the 4th inst: —" Tlie Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Victoria terminated on Saturday. The last public act of His ftoyal Highness in the colony was the laying of the foundation stone of the "Williamstown Graving .Dock, and immediately after this ceremony was over the Koyal party embarked at the Breakwater. The Duke entertained a large company, consisting of the members of the Keception Commission and both Houses of Parliament, with their lady friends, on board the Galatea, and at three o'clock the ship steamed away for Hobart Town. The weather was even finer than on that day six weeks when the Prince arrived, and the bay was gay with bunting streaming from the ships at anchor and from numerous pleasure-boats.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1306, 23 January 1868, Page 3
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