Franz Ferdinand vou Oesterreich-Fate, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, arrived at Hongkong on the morning of the flat ult, by the Kaiserin Elisubeth, which anchored about ten o'clock neat to the Victor Hmanucl. A series of salutes wus ut once fired. At half-past one Governor Sir William Robinson called on His Highness, 'The distinguished visitor, 8 travelling strictly incognito, intenda visiting Canton and Macao during' his sta of five or six days in this neighbourhood, The proposed visit to Bangkok, which formed part of the programme of His Tm. perial Highness's tour, was abandoned, in low of the tate of airs in Siam, and the Kaiserin Elisabeth came direct from Singapore to Hongkong,
of the Archduke Karl Ludwig, the eldest His Imperial Highness ig the eldest son brother of the Emperor, who on the death of the late Archduke Rudolph, son of the Emperor, became heir presumptive to Monarchy. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born on the 18th December, 1863, and is therefore in his thirtieth your, is described as tall, with " mild and. pleas. ant expression, but apparently rather shy, looking younger Un his aye, having only a slight moustache, We undetsbant he di tour commenced on the 14th of December, the port of departure being Trieste. Having visited India and Ceylon be came further eastward to Singapore, whence he proceeded to. the Australian Colonies, and on his way back visited New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, Now Guinea, the Netherlands Indies, and Sarawa ing to Singapore on the 12th. inst. leaving again for Hongkong on the 16th inst. "From Hongkong he will proceed to Japan, rid Shanghai, and from Japan will proceed to America, probably by one of the mail lives, and will visit the Chicugo Exhibition.
The following is_a list of the Prince's suite:—1. Teo, Graf Wurmbrand-Stupbach, Major-General Imperial and Ruynl Army and Hend Chamberlain tu hig
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