Identifier: newfoundlandatbe00harv (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Harvey, M. (Moses), 1820-1901
Subjects: George V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936
Publisher: New York : The South Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es of responsibilityin connection with the reception ; and while they transfer toyou the honor of the undertaking, they will be greatly pleasedto co-operate with you in any way that you may desire. Asthe programme has to be first approved by His Majestys Gov-ernment, I beg to intimate that I shall be glad to receive yourrecommendations from time to time for the purpose of sub-mitting them for approval through His Excellency the Governor. It only now remains for me to ask you to proceed to electa chairman. When you have done that I shall lay before youthe views of His Excellency the Governor ; and then leave youto your deliberations, feeling perfectly satisfied that your laborswill reflect credit upon yourselves and the colony, and giveunalloyed pleasure to those whom we all desire to honor. Rt. Hon. Sir W. V. Whiteway, was on motion of Hons. L.OB. Furlong and James Angel, appointed chairman, and J. A.Clift, Esq., on motion of John Cowan and A. F. Goodridge, Esqs.,was chosen secretary.
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CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL OP THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CORNWALLAND YORK. On Wednesday morning, October 23d, at 7 oclock, theroyal yacht «Ophir» and her escorts, entered the narrows, andsteamed slowly up the harbor to the positions that had beenassigned them by Commodore Giffard, of H. M. S. «Charybdis,»the «Ophir» berthing at the coastal wharf of Messrs. A. J.Harvey & Co., the «Niobe,» « Diadem,» «Cresent,» and « Proser-pine » anchoring in the harbor. As soon as the ships appearedin the offing, a royal salute was fired from Fort Townshend, andas they entered the harbor, the bells of the Roman CatholicCathedral rang out a merry peal of joy, while thousands ofvoices from piers and hillsides mingled in the glad welcome.Before an hour had elapsed the city and harbor were brilliantin a profusion of bunting. At 11 oclock, His Excellency the Governor, Sir CavendishBoyle, K. C. M. G., and the Premier, the Hon. Robert Bond,proceeded on board the «Ophir» to pay their respects to the

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