ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRALASIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 196, 20 September 1900, Page 3

ROYAL VISIT TO AUSTRALASIA.

(By Klxotbhj Thlxoraph. —Copyrioht.)

GREATEST ENTHUSIASM IN THB COLONIES AND IS LONDON. THE DTJEB OF TORS COKES OUT AS COMMANDER OF THB NATAL BQUADBON. AN INVITATION TO BB BENT FROM NBW ZEALAND. [IB PMSS ASSOOUTIOH.] Heoeived 19, 9.26 ml Stdnit, September 19. The announcement of the Duke and Duchess of York's proposed visit was receded with cheers in- the various Parliaments. The general feeling of j appreciation of the honour done Australia was voiced by the various Premiers, Sir W. J. Lyne states that a couple of months ago he cabled to London asking that a Eoyal personage might visit the colonies in connection with the initiation of the Commonwealth. -He also asked if Mr. Ohamberlain could find time to attend the festivities, but Mr. Ohamberlain replied that it was impossible at the present juncture for tiim to accept. Received 19, 9.30 a.m. < Musoukhb, September 19. The Lieutenant-Governor has cabled Mr. Ohamberlain that the Victorian people offer their most cordial thanks and express enthusiastic gratification to the Queen for this last act of her never failing self-sacrifice, sympathy, and gracious consideration for Australia, as well as for all her people; to the Duke and Duchess of York for their noble appreciation of Australia's great act of union, and their personal sacrifice and good will to mark it with splendour in the eyes of the world; and to Her Majesty's Ministers for their great Imperial wisdom which is --thus made once again conspicuously manifest. (Reoeived 19, 9.12 a.m.) • Londoh, September 18, The British press is delighted at the Queen's signal act of favour to Australia. The Times says the Duke of York will go out as commander of the naval squadron, The paper congratulates United Australia on starting its career with all the signs of coming greatness and glory. WiuiiraiDir, September 19. In both Houses a motion will be • moved at the instance of the Government sending an invitation to the Duke and Duchess of York to include New' Zealand in their proposed trip to i Australia. The Governor has received a long cable from Mr. Ohamberlain confirming the press message with reference to the proposed visit of, the Duke and Duchess of York to the Australian colonies, A TRIUMPHAL PROGRESS BXPEOTED. CANADIANS CLAIM A VISIT. Received 19,11.25 p.m. " Lohdoh, September 19. The Agents-General who have been interviewed are delighted with the visit, which is of great Imperial significance and a vital date in Australia's history. " ' The Duke of York will make a triumphal progress. The impression is that cruisers will aseort the Royal yacht. The Canadian Press puts forward a claim to a visit from the Duke and Duchess of York. - ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BY QUEENSLAND, VICTORIA, AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Bkisbihx, September 19. The Government has cabled to Mr. . Ohamberlain withjreference to the visit of the, Duke and Duchess of York as follows: " The Government and people of Queensland send grateful thanks to Her Majesty for this signal manifestation of readiness to anticipate the wishes of heraubjects in all portions of the Empire. They fully recognise the spirit which leads her to so.great a sacrifice as to give this effectaal proof of her sense of the identity of Australian interests with those of the Mother Country. They desire also to thank the Duke and Duchess ,of York for their good will in undertaking to preside on an occasion of such historical importance, which will be so greatly augmented by their presence, and can assure them they will receive such a welcome in Australia, for their awn sakes, and as representatives of Her Majesty, as can only proceed from a loyal happy people. At the same time they congratulate Her Majesty's advisers on the arrangement which is so happily calculated to quicken the sense of intimate relations by which various parts of the Empire are associated in one organised

confederacy of interest and sentiment, t Received 20,0.35 a.m. ' Mslboubnb, September 19. ' The Assembly adopted an address to j the Queen expressing the colony's ■ warm appreciation of the Duke and ] Duchess of York's visit. ! Received 20,1.5 a.m. I • Adelaide, September 19. < The Government have sent a message to the Queen expressing grateful appreciation of, and thanks for, the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York.

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