THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Next to public speaking, the particular talent of the Prince of Wales is shooting (says M.A.P.) He is, indeed, one of the very best shots m the United Kingdom. His hatred of toadyism was once exemplified during a shoot. Early m the day a man came "up to the Prince and said, "I have been picking up your Royal Hkhness's birds." "That's all right," said the Prince, "how many have you?" "Thirteen, sir," said the man. "That's funny," commented the Prince, "considering I have only shot eight." The Prince's talents, by the way, do not include music, although his father and mother are very ■musical. Both the King and the Queeii take a genuine delight m music of the highest class, each being specially devoted to Wagner. The Prince, on the "contrary, tinds Wagner and all other hdgh-claes music frankly a bore, and m the privacy of tlie family cireiq never fails to let tlus circumstance bo known. The Prince's pet diversions, next to sliooting, are smoking and stamp-collecting. Another queer hobby is collecting babies' photographs. The mora comical the face of the baby the better its portrait pleases his Royal Highness. He even collects pictures of babies publislied as advertisements by proprietors of infants' foods. His collection of postage stamps is worth at least £20,000. So keen a pfiilatelist is lie that on several occasions collectors have had to tliank him for throwing light on certain scientific points concerning tlie study erf stamps. He onoe wrote of stamp collecting to a friend: "It is one of the greatest pleasures of my life.' 1