3-078-127 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught to Hong-Kong, 1890. '1. The Royal Visitors after landing on Pedder's Wharf; 2. The Duke of Connaught carried in a Chair; 3. Government House; 4. Laying Memorial-Stone of the Praya Reclamation Works; 5. The Duchess of Connaught receiving Ladies at Government House. 6. Chinese Coolies carrying Luggage; 7. Illumination of the Harbour...The Acting Governor of Hong-Kong, the Hon. F. Fleming...met the Royal visitors at their landing...All the vessels in the harbour, naval and mercantile, were dressed with flags, and a Royal salute was fired...The Duke and Duchess were conveyed in chairs to the City Hall, through roads and streets decorated with lines of flags on masts, triumphal arches, masses of foliage, mottoes, devices, banners, and shields...an address was presented by the Hon. P. Ryrie, Chairman of the Reception Committee...describing the vast progress of Hong-Kong during the past fifty years, since it was a desolate rocky island with a few poor fishermen dwelling there. It is now a community of 200,000 people, with a great commerce, and with docks for shipping unsurpassed in the East...The streets of the city were splendidly illuminated...Our Illustrations are from sketches by Mr. Lionel C. Barff'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.