PIPES AND KILTS FOR THE PRINCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17836, 3 May 1926, Page 5

PIPES AND KILTS FOR THE PRINCE.

AMBITIOUS TO WIN POINT-TO-POINT OF OWN REGIMENT. (Special to the "Star.”) LONDON. March 24. The Prince of Wales, attending the 143rd banquet of the Highland Society of London, at the Hotel Victoria, last night, wore Highland dress with a kilt and was piped in by the bagpipes In proposing the toast the Prince

recently of people who were entertaining the new minister, and they did not know what to give him to drink as a nightcap. So they gave, him a glass of milk and put in some of their best whisky. " The next morning they could not find: the minister, but after a little search they found that he had gone to the byre. But he was not there when the. searchers arrived. The map in charge was asked had he seen the minister. and he said * Yes ’ “ They asked him what the minister said' to him. and he replied: ‘He said . ** I want the first c alf from the cow from which I had that milk.

The Mackintosh, proposing the toast of "The Prince of Wales.” said his Royal Highness had by no means an easy life, find was not averse to strenuous exercise. In fact, he had been riding in a point-to-point race; that day. His greatest ambition in Life was to

win the point-to-point of the regiment of which he was Colonel-in-Chief. He had already won the Lancers, and he had tried to win the Welsh Guards. He thought that a Prince with a sane mind and a sane body who would take the risks of hunting and take falls in this March weather and east winds was certain to win the affections of everybody in “his country.