LONDON EN FETE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1160, 22 June 1911, Page 5

LONDON EN FETE.

THE CORONATION PAGEANT. GORGEOUS DECORATIONS IN THE CITY STREETS. BRILLIANT SPECTACLE. By Telegraph—Press Association— London, .Tuno 20. Tho decorations and illuminations in . preparation for Coronation aro being completed. Many of the banks and insurance. companies and clubs are spending .£SOO each. Tho Westminster City Council is spending ,£IO,OOO on the decoration of Whitehall, including the removal of electric standards in order not to obstruct tho procession. Whitehall is also being decorated. Columns 35 feet high, surmounted bj white lions, carrying portcullis, and griffins and winged Victories carrying the shields of the British Kings. Near the New Zealand arch the Canadian province of Ontario has erected handsome pylons showing a fanner shearing sheep and the word "Prosperity with a horn of plenty. Fleet Stroet will l>o decorated with wreathed masts carrying festoons of evergreens, with alternate lions and unicorns. The newspaper offices will havo particularly elaborate decorations and illuminations. St. Paul's churchyard will be decorated with shields and banners of tho Patron Saints of tho United Kingdom. Hugo flower bells will bo hung in Cheapside recalling Bow Bells. Tho Bank of England is outlining its columns, roof, and architectural lines with five thousand lamps. Tho Mansion llouso will be similarly outlined wit'i ambergreen lights, and Mansion House Squaro will bo decorated with Corinthian columns bearing griffins. Business houses in tho city aro being decorated with crystal crowns and Royal monographs, some costing .£2OO each. There is a beautiful laburnum colour scheme in King William Street, leading to London Bridge, where there is an • elaborate scheme of lattice pilasters connected by festoons of purple wistaria. FOREIGN ENVOYS. RECEPTION AT THE PALACE. London, June 20. His Majesty tho King held a reception at Buckingham Palace to receive the foreign envoys and deputations. Sir Edwa.'d Gfey, Foreign Minister, and the officers of tho Household wcro present, and there was a brilliant assembly of the representatives of Japan, China, Turkey, and Persia, who brought Orders for his Majesty.. ■ ROMAN CATHOLIC GREETINGS. KING TO VISIT MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. (Rcc. June 22, 0.30 a.m.) London, June 21. At the King's special desire their MV>sties will visit the Roman Catholic College at Maynooth, Ireland, probably 8n 7a!y 9. . The' King hiii telegraphed to Cardinal Logue, sincerely thanking the Bishops assembled at Maynooth for their kind congratulations to tho Queen . and himself on ■ the ' solemn occasion of _ tho Coronation,: And- for their kind wishes that every blossing might attend, their Majesties. STATE PORTRAIT FOR NEW SOUTHj WALES. (Rcc. June 22, 1.10 a.m.) Sydney, June 21. Tho Chief Secretary has been advised that tho King is presenting New South Wales with a copy of the State portrait of himself and the Queen in commemoration of the Coronation.A TASMANIAN GIFT. London, June 20. His Majesty the King has accepted Tasmania's gift of pears. TO-DAY IN LONDON, WHEN THE KING WILL BE CROWNED. Londoners will be early abroad to-dav, for although tho King will not bo actually crowned until somewhere in the neighbourhood of two o'clock in the afternoon, the ordinary sightseers will be making their way to points of vantage from about 2 a.m. onwards. Westminster Abbey will bo opened as early as 6.30 a.m., an<l many of the Court beauties will be en route to that historic pilo before 6 o'clock. Most of the Peers and Peeresses will be in their places by 9 a.m., when the doors of the Abbey will bo closed. From 8.30 a.m., the whole of the route from Buckingham l'alaco to Westminster will bo kept exclusively for the free passage of his Majesty tho King and the Koyal procession, until such time as his Majesty shall have returned to tho Palace after the Coronation. The Royal procession will form up at a quarter to ten, and will leave Buckingham Palace at 10.30 a.m. precisely. His Majesty the King will proceed in State from Buckingham Palace by way of tho Mall, the Admiralty Arch, Charing Cross, Whitehall, Parliament Street, and Broad Sanctuary, to tho West Entranco of Westminster Abbey, returning after the ceremony by Parliament Square, St. Margaret's Street, Parliament Street, Whitehall, Charing Cross, Cockspur Street, Tall Mall, St. James's Street, Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, aud Constitution Hill to Buckingham Palace. Thi Colonial Office has made a Tcqucst to the. Earl Marshal to be informed of the exact minute the crown will be placed upon tile King's head, and tile information—it is expected that the time will l>o within a few minutes of two o'clock—will bo communicated by the Colonial Office to every part of the Empire. In those parts of the Empire where it is daytimo when it is two o'clock at Westminster guns will bo fired, and in many of those places where it is night rockets , or bombs will be let off. Taking two . o'clock as tho actual time when the King will bo crowned, the corresponding hour at different places throughout the Empire • will be: • Sydney 12.5 a.m., June 23 Melbourne 11.10 p.m., .Tune 22 Adelaide 11.1-1 p.m., June 22 Perth (Western Australia) » 9.13 p.m., June 22 - Wellington (New Zealand) 1.39 a.m., .Tune 23 f Calcutta 7.53 p.m.* June 22 , Bombay 0.51 p.m., June 22 l Cape Town 3.1! p.m., June 22 St. John's (Newfoundland) r 10.29 a.m., June 22 ; Toronto 8,12 a.m., June 22 Vancouver 5.38 a.m., June 2; Jamaica 7.7 a.m., June 22 The Coronation Fetes. Tn tho evening after tho Coronation - there will bo a family dinner at Buckingham Palace. Tho fetes immediately fol- " lowing the Coronation havo been arranged 1 as under: . - Friday, Juno 23.—Their Majesties wil s mal;o a progress to the City and f through a portion of South London. Constitution Hill, Piccadilly. St. 1 James's Street, Pall Mall, Trafalgar ' Square, Duncannon Street, the 0 Strand, Fleet Street Liidgatc Ml, 1 St Paul's Churchyard. Cannon Mreet. 'i and Queen Victoria Street will k x among tho streets traversed.on the d outward journey, and the King and Queen will return through Southward

to St. George's Circus, minwlcr Bridgo lioiul, Woslniinsler llriilge, I'nr* ]i 11 ment Square, Whitehall, anil tlio Mull to Buckingham Palace, lturday, Juno 24.—Their Majesties, llio Ifnyal guests, and f»roi|;n envoys, and a large hod.v nf other gnosis will proceed by fi|K'(:inl Irains In I'nrlsmoulh for 11 great review of I lit* Heel, al Spit lienri. Tim general body nf gnosis will return In I/omlnii nil the wniio evening, lull llio King and Queen will remain on board (lit* Itoynl yaelil, will spend Sunday' <itiii'Uy on board, and will return lo on Monday, londay, Juno 26.—Tim Kins nnd Queen will return In lown. nnd in llio evening (ho.v, with Iheir guesls, ivill nltend'n gala pcrformiinro nl llio lio.ynl Opera House. uesday, Juno 27.—0n this dn.v, the evo of the doparluro nf llio foreign guests, their Majeslies will give a groat garden parly in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. The guests, including llio foreign royalties nnd t other envoys and tlio various colonial roprefontaties, will probably number some thousands. In the evening the King nnd Queen and tlio guests will attend a pala performance at the theatre. Tho Karl and Countess of Derby will entertain their Majesties at a supper and danco at Derby House following the theatrical performance.