Prince arrives in Dunedin

The Prince of Wales has arrived in Otago and magnificently have the people risen to the occasion in according him a welcome. Their enthusiasm has known no bounds and the unrestrained expressions of the light with which he has everywhere been received have proclaimed alike the intense loyalty of the people of Otago to their future king and the personal affection which they feel for the youthful looking Prince. It is no exaggeration to say that the people of Dunedin have instantly taken him to their hearts. The weather last evening was almost unseasonably warm for the period of the year and this induced very large numbers to throng the brilliantly lighted and handsomely decorated streets and to cheer the Prince as he passed along in the royal car en route from the railway station.

Stuart Street was a blaze of colour and light, from the glittering Crown above the stately columns of the railway station to the twinkling blue and red stars of a transformed Octagon. Towering above all the fireman’s arch at the corner of Cumberland Street thrust 64 feet of streaming banners of flaming lights into the quivering atmosphere of radiance.

Children’s voices were easily recognisable in the cheering that continued as the Prince, standing in his car, acknowledged the exclamations of his people. A few moments of cheering, a glimpse of a grey coated figure standing in the moving car and bowing gracious acknowledgement and the long

awaited event was over. The prince had passed onward and out of sight.