DUKE OF CORNWALL’S TOUR.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1514, 7 March 1901, Page 48

DUKE OF CORNWALL’S TOUR.

ACTION BY MR KEIR lIARDIE. LONDON, February 28. 5Mr.iL Keir Hardie, the Labour memllier for Merthyr-Tydvil, and formeily sehainnan of the* Independent Labour j*axty, will move in the House of Cowmans that the vote of £20,000 for the of the Duke and Duchess of CJenniwalfis visit to the colonies be realised to £IO,OOO. ® LONDON, February 28. The steamer Ophir has started from 3L-onckm for Portsmouth, where the .Duke and Duchess of Cornwall will emifeai’ik. LONDON, March 1. The Supplementary Naval Estimates' msehide a sum of £43,000 for alterations ftsttke steamer Ophir in connection with She Visit -of the Duke and Duchess of -York io the colonies. SYDNEY, March 1. -Considerable additions and extensive umprovements are being made to Government House in view of the approacli--jng Visit of the Duke and Duchess of

Cornwall. Alterations are also being made in Lord Ho pet cun's residence. MELBOURNE, February 28. The Premiers of Natal and Cape Colony will be invited to attend the celebrations in connection with the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, will a 100 be asked to appoint a representative of the Indian Empire. The Premier informed a deputation of Maoris representing tribes south of the Manawatu River on Saturday that the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall would not have time to pay a visit to the natives of the West Coast of the North Island while in New Zealand.