1 Visit to Lundi Kotal,
2 The Prince at Rawal-
3 pindi.
4 The laying of the
5 foundation-stone of the
6 new Jubilee Museum
7 and Technical Institute,
8 Lahore, 1890.
9 The speech of His
10 Royal Highness.
11 The opening of the
12 Hail
13 Town
14 GLS : HISTORY OF THE PANJAB,
15 da and of delivering to the men with his own hands their well-earned
16 medals,
17 The Royal party then rode to Lundi Kotal, where His Royal Highness
18 received the respects of the chiefs of the Shinwaries, 1 voute, the Prince
19 was met bya section of the Zaka Khyles, who welcomed him to the Khaibar.
20 His Royal Highness and party then returned to Ali Masjid, and started at
21 midnight for Rawalpindi.
22 On Ist February, 1890, the Prince reached Réwalpindi, and there was ..
23 a grand parade of troops on the plains of Khana, His Royal Highness
24 was greatly interested in the different regiments passing by, which con-
25 sisted of Gurkhas, Sikhs, Pattians and Dogrds, besides many exceptionilly
26 fine British Corps.
27 On Monday, the 3rd of February, His Royal Highness laid the founda-
28 tion-stone of the New Jubilee Museum and Technical Institute in Anéarkali,
29 Léhore. This is intended to serve as an auxiliary to the greater Indian
30 Institute in London, and is to be constructed at a cost of over a lakh-and-
31 a-half of rupees. The address having been read by Mr. J. L. Kipling,
32 Curator of the Museum and Principal of the Mayo School of Art, His
33 Royal Highness made an impressive and eloquent reply. The real military
34 spirit and the real military material were so conspicuous in this province of
35 action, that he could count on military brevity being acceptable that day. He
36 had heard of the cunning wood-carving and of the beautiful embroideries of
37 the Panjab before he came to India, and he had a special reason for being
38 delighted to take a part in a scheme which had the double object of forming
39 a great Museum and Sample-house of the products of this interesting
40 country, and of affording technical education to those whose career must he
41 in other paths than those of the plough and the sword. They knew how
42 his father had laboured to establish in England a splendid and lasting in-
43 stitution which would teach mankind the power and reality of the great
44 British Empire, and this Museum and Technical Institute of the Panjab
45 embraced precisely the same objects as those aimed at by the Imperial
46 Institute. The pleasure His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales would
47 feel on learning that the Panjdéb was to have an Institute based on the lines
48 of the Institute in London, would, the Royal speaker felt sure, be shared
49 by the Queen-Empress; for the loyal offerings poured in by the chiefs and
50 people of the province, could have found no more appropriate or useful
51 object than that of an institution for the promotion of trade and agricul-
52 ture and for the encouragement of art among the people of the Panjab.
53 His Royal Highness, having then performed the usual ceremonies, was
54 pleased to declare the foundation-stone well and truly laid.
55 The Prince then proceeded to the new Victoria Jubilee Hall, where, the
56 Municipal address having been read to him, His Royal Highness said, in
57 reply, that it afforded him great pleasure to be present that day. The
58 Victoria Jubilee Hall, which they had invited him to declare open, was a -
59 worthy and useful memorial of the fiftieth year of the reign of the Queen-
60 Empress, and he trusted that it might be the scene of many- quiet and wise
61 debates of pure and loyal counsels, and, as in other countries, it was the
62 highest ambition of the citizen to win esteem in his own city, so here the
63 men of Lahore and of its district might find an appropriate Temple of
64 Fame, where their names would remain honoured and revered. Possibly,
65 hereafter, too, on the walls of this hall their features might be handed
66 down to posterity in truthful portraits by Indian artists. His Royal High-
67 ness then thanked them for the kind sentiments they had expressed towards
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