STUDENTS' CARNIVAL.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2155, 22 May 1914, Page 5

STUDENTS' CARNIVAL.

The procession of the Victoria College Students in annuaition with their annual carnival takes place to-day. Many items of l-ocal_ and geneva 1 interest, will be depicted in the procession, wjiich will leave St. I'etor's KrhuolrooiH at noon, and will proceed via film?,liesStreet and Lambton Quay to the Onvepiment Buildings; thence 'along Feathers ton Street to the Post Office- Square wlwre .E.oii'.e stirring speeches wif! be delivered, Tho procession will return to St. "Peter's, via Castomhoaso Quay and Willis Street.

In tlio evening, at 7.45, Boadieea, Qneen of tiie Britons, will make her bow to the audience at the Town Hall in a play to which she has given her name and one which has been written <>sp<?e-ial!y tor .her by one of the students. Of this play the author -says in his introdection"ln presenting the extrmgianSßt '.Roadicea,' we wish to disclaim all intention of local, religious, or political s&tirc. AVe hasten to assert that- thii Oueen does not represent a lihttse of the wom&ti suffrage movement, and we might look long "before finding any trace of resemblance between mighty Caesar and Sir Joseph Ward, Bart. We write of greater things. John Bull as a civilising fori® is easily the most active in the iverM. but when surveying his motives iii this respect he is an inveterate optimist. If we read history aright there is little, material difference between the colonising ethics of pagan Rome and Christian England— and so our extravaganza," Fljr the hoiicHt of Hntt and Petone ro> sidents, a train will leave Ijambton Station at 10.50 on the flight of the performalice.