THE KING'S HEALTH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 33

THE KING'S HEALTH.

A TRIP TO COWES. >'OXE THE W r ORSE FOR THE JOURNEY. GENERAL CONDITION GOOD. STEADILY IMPROVING. LONDON, July 14. The King continues to progress satis fsctoiily. His general condition is excellent. The wound is healing well. The King's dinners to the poor are completed. They included one to 1500 blind people. July 15.

Six sailors, under the superintendence of Sir F. Troves, carried the King on a couch to an ambulance van. His Majesty was driven to Victoria station, where he was transferred from the couch to the train. The greatest privacy was, maintained, the platform being screened. July 16.

The King's couch was placed in a specially constructed ambulance carnage, rubber-tyred wheels, wherein the Queen, nurses, and surgeons also went to Victoria station. The blinds were closely drawn. The railway journey was made in a special saloon car. The King was exceedingly well and ill excellent spirits. The doctors and attendants alone witnessed the embarkation on the Victoria.^ and Albert. At Portsmouth- a royal salute was fired. There was a light breeze, and many j'achts displayed bunting.

The trip to Cowes was enjoyed by 1 ' tho King, who %vas placed high enough to see out of the pavilion on deck. He was greatly pleased with the change. Sir F. Knollys, at Cowes, telegraphed at .midnight that the journey had been most successful, and the King was none the worse for it.

The bulletin issued states that the King bore the journey extremely well, suffering no inconvenience. He had a good night, and his general condition is excellent. The King is much gratified at the change of air and Bcene. The couch was wheeled on the open deck for t^vo hours yesterday afternoon. Truth states that the King's long cruise after the Coronation will terminate at Aberdeen. He will then proceed to Balmoral.

The King was on clock for er-vx-ral hours yesterday, when ideal weather prevailed. The Prince of Wales is aboard. July 18. The King is steadily improving. His diet is less restricted.

The- British Medical Journal state* that the wound is closing well from the bottom. The King .sleeps eight or nine hours continuously at night. His general health is better for the pa«t three weeks' rest.

The Lancet <uys the King look^ better than he has done for some years. There is a reasonable hope that the breezes of the .Solent will accelerate his recovery 'jlhe King continues to make satisfactory progress, and is benefiting in every way by the change. He sleeps well, and spends the greater part of the day on liis couch on the open deck.

The next bulletin will be issued on Monday.

His Worship the Mayor offerß two prizes of £10 10;. and £5 5s respectively for the two best espays on the Greater Dunedin scheme. All contribution*,, conditions of which can be obtained at the Town Hall, must be delivered not later than October 22.

Mr J. Turner (Mr J. C. Williamson's leading mechanist), who supervised the reconstruction of the Alexandra Theatre- (now Her Majesty's Theatre), Melbourne, leaves the other side for Dunedin thib week to superintend the alterations to the Agricultural HalJ, decided upon by the directors of the Agricultural Hall Company. It has been decided to call the building The King's Theatres.