an acknowledgement of his long and faithful services. The presentation was made to the recipient on the 10th of September in the names of the numerous subscribers of both Towns. Mr. Woods had been known to the present writer for a period of about 36 years, twenty-eight of which had been devoted to the discharge of those duties which he had recently relinquished. Vast changes had taken place during Mr. Woods’s official career – changes that had from time to time entailed upon that gentleman no small amount of labour and some pecuniary sacrifice. The idea always uppermost with Mr. Woods was that no small wheel of any machine should be suffered to stop the progress of a large one; and, acting himself on his favourite motto, he never attempted to place impediments in the way of that great machine of which he was a subordinate part. Came there an order from head quarters for an extra-ordinary return to be made immediately, or for some new regulation to be put in force, our late postmaster was the right man to do the bidding of his superior officers, and with alacrity, even though such acquiescence deprived him of rest and sleep. And then, his urbane manner and respectful bearing both to his fellow-townsmen and visitors, was so well known as to require no eulogy in this place.
Royal Visitors
Her Majesty the ex-Queen of the French, arrived at St. Leonards on the 27th of February, accompanied by the Duc de Nemours and attended by the Count and Countess Chabannes. They traveled over the South-Eastern line from Dorking. Other members of the family arrived at a later date, including the Prince de Joinville and the Count de Paris. After a sojourn of three weeks at the Royal Victoria Hotel the Royal visitors returned to Dorking.
The King of the Belgians, accompanied by his son the Count de Flanders, passed through Hastings and St. Leonards on Wednesday the 22nd of May on his way from Dover to Portsmouth, from which town he crossed to Osborne to visit the Queen.
The Prince of Prussia, on the 18th of July, also passed through Hastings and St. Leonards en route for Portsmouth. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Baron Obernitz and Col. Hardinge, equerry in waiting. They stayed at the Hastings station to change from the South-earn to the South-Coast line.
The Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt (mother of Prince Louis, the affianced of Princess Alice) arrived at Hastings station on -
