PRINCE FAREWELLED

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160735, 23 August 1920, Page 2

PRINCE FAREWELLED

AN ENDURING MEMORY. GUM’ OF A RACER. APOLOGIES TO PRESSMEN. SYDNEY, August 19. Th© Prince of Wales departed to-day aboard H.M.S. Renown. Great crowds lined Llie foreshores of the harbour and gave him an enthusiastic farewell. The Prince of Wales received over a thousand farewell messages from all classes, expressing, as Mr Hughes’ farewell expresses, “the enduring place that His Royal Highness has won in all hearts.” Tho Governor-General, in a message to the King, concludes: “The Prince endeared himself to all, and it is with infinite regret that the Government and the people of Australia hid him good-bye.” It ia unofficially stated that tho Prince bestowed'the following honours, on Wednesday on hoard 1 H.M.S. Renown at the luncheon: Knight Commander of th© Victoria.li' Order, Lieutenant. General Sir Brudnell White and RearAdmiral Grant; Commander of the Vic torian Order, Brigadier-General H. Lloyd; Members of the Victorian Order, Mr Clifford Hay (secretary of tho premier's Department) and LieutenantColonel Heritage (chief instructor at the school of musketry). j Kinlavrk, winner of the Australian Steeplechase, has been presented to tho Prince by his owner, Mr Niall. When acquainted with the fact that Federal income tax had been levied on the visiting pressmen with the Prince’s party, Mr W. M. Hughes stated that hj h;uj written to the pressmen expresshis regret, and adding that the payment would bo refunded. 818 POSTPONED VISIT TO INDIA. DELHI, August 19. The decision to postpone-the Prince of Wales’ visit to India was expected. The Indian Nationalist leader, Gandhi, bad been openly advocating a boycott of the Prince’s visit as part of_ the Kaliphato agitation. Without interfering so far, the Government is closely watching his campaign. Loyalists in India profoundly regret th© postponement of the Prince’s visit.