ROYAL VISITOR TO INDIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROYAL VISITOR TO INDIA.

FIXED FOR OCTOBER OF NEXT YEAR. I The visit of the Prince and Princess of ' Wales to India has been conditionally fixed for October next year. The first intimation that the visit was to take place was contained in the King's message to his Indian people read by Lord Curzon after the Coronation proclamation at the Delhi Durbar on January 1 of last year. " I confidently hope," read a portion of this message, "that my beloved son, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Wales, may before long be able to make themselves personally acquainted with India, a country which I have always desired that they should see, and which they are equally anxious to visit." In view of the Royal visit, a special train has recently been completed at the carriage works of the East Indian Railway Company at Lilooah. It has cost £20,000*, and engaged the attention of hundreds of native workmen, under European (supervision, for three months. It consists of eight saloon carriages, six of which are 72 feet long, and are carried at each end on sixwheeled bogie trucks. The remaining two, forming Ihe front and rear brakes, are 62 feet long. The total length of the train, is 556 ft 6i:n, and its approximate weight is 300 tons. ■■:..»