OVERSEA GUESTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1128, 16 May 1911, Page 5

OVERSEA GUESTS.

At the Hotel Cecil the Oversea Prime Ministers who aro attending tho Imperial Conference are to do the guests of the Goye rum eut during the period that the deliberations at tho Colonial Office coiiJ m . u . e -...- A ««r that during the Coronation festivities, the distinguished Oversea vi«itors becomo the guests of tho King. It was believed at one time- that the Right Hon. Louts Botha would not he able to take up his quarters at the Ilotel Cecil, tho state of his health requiring that he should have apartments at a higher altitude, but it is now stated that tho South African Prime Minister expects to spend the month under th; same roof with tho otner Premiers. These gentlemen will be m distinguished company, for no fewer than three Sultans have either booked apartmenls at tho hotel or aro negotiating for them Th, Sultan of Perak and the Sultan of Kedah have secured their rooms, and (he Sultan of Bikanir. who has a large suito to provide for, is engaged m correspondence- with the management with the view of obtainng accommodation. The com mi flee whoso duty ; mil be to consider and co-ordinato proposals for Ihe .entertainment of (he Prime -Ministers, Ministers, civil representatives, •and other distinguished visitors from the uritisn Dominions bevond the seas on the occasions of the Imperial Conference and Mm C-ron.alion has now been formed nutter t,ie chairmanship nf Colonel Se.Mv who has ui«t forsaken the Colonial Offire tw the Uiider-Serretnrvshin of \\„,. Tho other members will lie (he riuicn n f ll ?von shire, T.ncas, Sir W. F. T-'ely-TTutcli-lnson. Sir Harry Vcniev. M.P..' ]\r,- v yv. Wniiinpif,,,. Mr. G. T. Collins. M p ' Mr. Kw. S. M'C-l.aren. ;,r.l\. „Hr f C. nf the Colonial O|Ti,V or' 1 Mr - E ; r : Wi "'"i" c "»- of (be Colonial Office, as clerk and secretary.