"When all these statues are erected, this Colony, the first acquisition of our late Queen's reign and the first to perpetuate her beloved name, will possess within its City of Victoria a Square of which it may justly be proud. The site on which we now stand was in 1887 a part of the harbour. Your Royal Highness will readily recall to mind that in 1890 you laid the foundation stone of this Reclamation which, now completed, has added so large an area to our island and provided us with so fitting a position whereon to place these memorials of our great Queen Victoria the Good, of her son and grandson, and of the consorts. It is, I feel, a very happy opportunity which enables the first of these statues which have been erected to be unveiled by your hand, marking as it does in a measure the culmination of that work which you initiated seventeen years ago. I will now ask your Royal Highness to unveil the statue of His Majesty the King." (Loud cheers).
After the unveiling, H.R.H. made a brief reply to Sir Paul, speaking in a clear and distinct voice, which could be well heard by those assembled in the stand.
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The visitors then crossed the Square to the enclosure opposite the draped representation of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, where the Hon. Mr. W. Greason said:- "Your Royal Highness, on behalf of Mr. James Jardine Bell-Irving, who has left the Colony, I have the honour to ask you to unveil this statue of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
The Duke said I have much pleasure in unveiling this most excellent statue of the Heir to the Throne, and my nephew, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
His Excellency the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, brought the proceedings to a close by thanking the Duke as follows: "On behalf of the Community of Hongkong, I have to thank your Royal Highness for unveiling these statues,"
The unveilings of Queen Alexandra's statue, and that of the Princess of Wales, will be dealt with next; also the ceremony connected with the memorial to Sir Penry May, the last of its kind to be erected in the Colony.