THE LUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT.

Timaru Herald, Volume X, Issue 385, 3 February 1869, Page 2

THE LUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VISIT.

A iflt'gKiui from Wellington m a Southern contemporary givi.-s the following particulars : — • • Tlie (.ipvcnior hsis received the following ofik-iul ju-ogi-uitiuu' oi tin- Duke of Edinburgh's ti-ip. : — llo' loft. Plymouth early m November for iliuUitu, whiih ho was lo leave is the middle of rlii! sumo month, arriving at th« U.ipe of (jooci Hope at the. end, of December, lie would k-arc uguin m the beginning of January, and arrive at Swan River towards ihe tud of I lie eaiue mouth, proceeding to i tiydiuy m the beginning of. Febniary, and spending' eight days at Adelaide and _Melbourno en route. Sydney he will leave iv the -middle of March for Wellington; after which . he will visit Auckland and 'the other. Provinces. ~ He will finally leave Kew Zealand Irani Auckland at the end ,of Mny, for Yokohama m Japan, thence for the Gulf of Petcheelee, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manilla, Singapore, Penaug, Calcutta, Triucomalee, Point de Galle or Colombo, Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena, returning to Plymouth at the end of 1870. Although the Prince arrives here first, his public reception will be at Auckland, and there .will be no public display nor expense here. He will only remain m Wellington three days, and the period of hia stay m other provinces will be determined on his arrival.