The Royal tour, upon which the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York started on Saturday last, hus, with the arrival of the august travellers at Gibraltar, completed its first stage, and the wonderful recept: on accorded to them there may be looked upon us foretaste of what' will happen wherever they land, as it is safe to ise that the inhabitants of every port do its utmost fur its exalted visitors Colombo will not be out-done by Singapore nor Melbourne by Sydney, Natal will vie with Capetown and Halifax with St. John's. The whole journey is somewhat unique—a Royal progress through the grewer parts of our vast dominions. Its original motive—the opening of the first Federal Parliament of United Australia in the name of our most gracious Indy Queen Viotoria—has changed, but the Australian people must all feel especially grateful to King Edward for sparing his only son under these altered conditions, and the whole English-speaking race will echo His Majesty's torist, proposed at the farewell dinner on the Ophir, and wish the illustrious travellers A prosperous voyage and a safe return."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.