Mr. T. Toledano, of Shanghai who reached Vancouver a few days ago from England, where he has deen visiting his children, crossed the Atlantic from Southampton to Quebec, on the Empress of France, which was favoured with the presence of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. travelling incognito as Lord Renfrew: Mr. Toledano praised the prince for his thoughtfulness as a dancer. Lord Renfrew, he said, does not force a girl partner to dance backwards as many young men to, to his lady's discomfort, but takes his own share of the unpleasant work of the fox trot. "He dances very well, too,"? added Mr. Tole-dano, who said he was at all times friendly and courteous but also determined in so far as maintaining his incognito was. concerned. He had a private suite of rooms but ate his meals in the public dining room, played deck tennis with the members of his party, and generally entered into the diversions of the voyage.
Many people from Shanghai know Banff, the ideal mountain resort in the Canadian Rockies. It is here that the prince spent some happy days. In fawn knickers and striped sweater, and puffing his briar, His Royal Highness put in most of his time golfing on a course which stands 20.000 feet above sea level. Surrounding it are peaks that remain caked! with snow in the hottest days of summer, while golfers covering the links look down on huge blue lakes of crystal clearness. The prince's secretary and two others were in the party but Lord Renfrew did most of his golfing the with Thompson, pre.
the hotel where he stay ge had been made usual furnishings and appointments, other than that the public dining room, which he used, had its floor strewn with multi-colored leaves shed by mountain maples. On his own ranch at High River, south of Calgary in) Al-horta, the prince has had some intimate glimpses of western life. Wearing a Stetson hat, the wide-brimmed variety typical of the Royal North West Mounted Police, and with shaps' for leg coverings while riding, he rode with the cowboys at a stampede, when the cattle were rounded up for the winter. He also saw intrepid cowboys ride the bucking horses, wild animals horn iw the hills, and said he would never forget the thrills these exhibitions gave him. Around the ranch-house he has done some hard work. He worked with his employees in helping to fill the stores with winter feed, donning overalls for the purposs, When evening came and he was as tired and as hungry as the rest, he was found more than once inv the kitchen watching the cook making' flapjacks', the popular wheat cakes of the Canadian west. At supper he joined with the others at the farm in cating corn off the cob'. To get full satisfaction out of thi " H.R.H. munched the corn in western style, holding the cobs with his fingers after the manner of a boy with a mouth organ, but not quite at the same speed, Those who have seen him say he is looking the picture of health and perhaps will be sorry to got away from the simple life of the foothills and back to the royal courts of England and the life which calls for formalities and ceremonials.
BISHOP HOLD! RETURN, Among the passeng who sailed on the Empress of Asia were the Rt. Rev. John Holden ma. DD. rly consecrated bishop of Kwangsi-Hunan, China. and Mrs. Holden, xe Miss Elsie Maude Roxby, formerly missionary in China. Recent guests at the Hotel Vancouver here were Mr. Thomas. S$.. Baker, of Shanghai, inspector of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Mrs. Baker. They arrived in this country from China last May. They have been in California recently and are en route to London, England.
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