Melbourne, May 29.
Melbourne, which is the tempora ary seat of government pending the actual fixation of the capital of Australia, has done itself proud. The royal visit, up to the time of writing, has been one continued triumph. Of course, there were demands for increased wages men working under Arbitration Court awards, but after all this only proved the weakness of the arbitration system—compulsory, as it is here—rather than any lack of appreciation of the visit. On the several occasions on which your correspondent has been present His Royal Highness. undoubtedly won golden opinions for the monarchical system,'as interpreted by. the British nation, by his modesty of demeanour, his thoughtfulness of others, his simplicity, but, especially, by the intimate nature of his public deliveries.
When Mr. Hughes spoke of the Prince of Wales as an ambassador of our race empire he could hardly have chosen a more pregnant phrase. It is doubtful if at any moment in our history it has been more urgently necessary that an Empire ambassador should travel through the world. The British Empire has splendidly manifested itself in the recent war. It hag burst into thin air the bubbles of Veutonic imagination, which figure ed that with the United Kingdom at war, the Empire of India and the various self-governing Dominions would ab once cast off the "yoke of English rule. But the very winning of the war has set loess influences far more dangerous than those of the ex-Kaiser's unreliable spies.
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