• On Friday week the German Emperor and Empress with
Prince August Wilhelm and Princess Victoria Luise arrived at Corfu on board the 'Hohenzollern.' The Emperor has been staying in his house known as the Achilleion, which was built by the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria. It was from her heirs that be bought the property, which is on the east of the island about six miles from Corfu. The good road leading to it, as the Times correspondent says, is a relic of the British administration ; but we might add that the Greeks themselves, particularly during the Premiership of M. Trikoupis, have from time to time built some excellent roads. The back of the Achilleion is completely shut in by a hill which rises like a screen behind the windows, and in front there are terraces covered with olive and cypress sloping to the sea, and across the sea are the snow-topped mountains of Albania. On Monday the Emperor was entertained at luncheon on board H.M.S. 'Implacable,' when he said in proposing a toast :—" I drink to the glory of our two flax's. May they both ever fly as they have done in the past ''for the main- tenance of the world's peace." If the Emperor wanted rest, be has certainly chosen the right place in going to the Achilleion.
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