, 1892-06-01

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pear, vanish, or die, quite as suddenly again.
If one exists | know nothing of it. as we hadn't
the pleasure of hearing it, that morning. but
Mr.. Holmes vent around with his fiddle band
OF musicians and made things pretty lively.
There was quite a display ofbanting. not a
solitary staff was bare, many houses were
decorated, notably Mr. NJ. j. Heyl gers, Mr..
A. Henderson's aud capt. Us ers. the latter
being a small house, il was literally covered
with anal flags and presented a very Pleasing
sight. The great { etu. g Of tn day, however,
was the ship TO which you alluded in one of
your late issues.
The "Christian OF Louise is the ingenious
construction of the Bennersou Brothers. and
is really worth seeing. She is about 47ft. lon.
and carries II guns. AMI [ was surprised 10
hear that she numbers 30 souls, belonging to
her, from the physically we'll developed .Ad-
miral to the smallest messenger boy. At about
loclock groups were seen here and there 10 *
ing at the Officers who were in full puff going
to the ship. At about 3 o'clock the sChristiqn og
Louise" left her mornings (therr was some
difficulty in getting her under way in .
yard at the head Of Kings Street. an came
stsAming down, gayly decorated with flags.
one or two of her jolly Jack -tars were aloft on
tho lookout, while others were on deck per-
forming other duties. The man at the wheel
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man, and the petty officers looked as impor-
tant az petty officers generally do. The
officers were in gala dress, in fact they were
all in their best outfit and looked really
daahing. 1t is understood Of course that
the ship can only Garry 20 or 80 men, 50
the others marched behind.
Preceding the ship was q detachment Of
marines, one of whom carried . banner, the
Danish flag, on which was the following in
gold paper, viz
The Crown, under which was G TX. and
L., in q Monogram, on either side the year
1912 and 1892, enoircled by a wreath, and
underneath in large letters "t3od bless them.
40 | have already said there is no Brass Band
here, so Mr.. Hcines with his trustv few
headed the procession with fiddle. fife and
drum. OF course q very large oowl followed.
Arriving opposite the Fort q Royal Salute
WAS fired from the ship and Lieut. Jorgensan
kindly allowed the officers to drill. the mon
in the enclosure opposite his residence, The
Lieutenant was much pleased an thank"d
them heartily. Opposite Mr.. Hendersoa's
this gentleman addressed them in a few Will
chosen words to the following eff .ct. lie
expressed how pleased be wa4 at ii. sigh
Of their magnificent ship he is always thrill
ed with delight at sight Of a war ship IS he
ia an old man-of-war's man. He gave them
great praise for thu trouble tho o. hsl taken
in building this splendid vessel, AID Ii, was
also pleased to see how much they were
enjoying themselves. He mentioned the
fact, which he thought they would like
to know, that this lie the first Instance
in the history Of Denmark that a Royal couplo
had celebrated their Golden Wedding. Tbs
fact that Their Majesties are connected by
marriage with the 6overe,gns Of the lea ling
nations Of the world be is sure is well known.
how inexpresslbly happy hr saidthey must fool
to-day in being surrounded by all whom they
love. by kinship and others. He, personally,
felt proud to be a subject Of such Sovereigpe,
and he had no doubt that all felt the same.
He concluded by saying that though Fhei.
Majesties had attained a good old az, he
hoped they would still be spared many years
20 reign over as, and calling for three times
three cheers for the Royal Couple, they woro
given heartily. Mr.. Fl. does nothing by
halves, and invited the Officers to drink this
health of Their Naiesties, which was drank
with great pleasure.
The ship unfortunately got stranded, so the
officers could only call upon His Honour the
Judge and the Police Adjutant, by whom they
were we'll received.
Revd. Rietvelt got up q sack race in the
afternoon, which caused much amusement,
In the evening there was a display OF fireworks
from the Fort battery. The day WIS fine and