PRINCE OF WALES

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 July 1923, Page 7

PRINCE OF WALES

VISITS WISHING WELL. FEB PBBSS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT LONDON, July 21. The Pri nee of Wales, after lunching at Iwardy, motored to the farms whose occupants are his tenants. He stopped his car at Maiden Castle, saying “i think I'm twenty minutes ahead of time.” He flung himself on a grassy slope on the wayside for a rest but a little girl on a Shetland pony came along and the Prince sat up and talked to her, then drove to the famous Wishing Well of Upwey, which is approached through a bower of Crimson Rambler and other roses. Here, in passing a gathering mainly composed of young women, the Prince drank water from the well, then, as bidden by Mrs Smith, the aged custodian, he threw the remainder of the water in his glass over his left shoulder. '“Did you wish, sir?” asked a girl from a bevy of rosy faces. “No, I didn’t,” replied the Prince. “But you should,” said the girl, adding a wish for a happy Princess. The Prince of Wales raised his hat and smiled as he seemed to' detect a carefully prepared plot. He said, “Well I’ll think about it.” The girls raised a cheer as the Prince drove off to catch the train for London.