CORONATION CEREMONY

Evening Star, Issue 21753, 22 June 1934, Page 10

CORONATION CEREMONY

The St. Kilda Beach improvement carnival, which is already an assured success, will be brouhgt to a conclusion on Tuesday evening next with the crowning of the Queen of the Carnival at His Majesty’s Theatre. The sports queen (Miss Barton), was the chosen of the people, and, as “ Queen Eona,” she will be crowned. The arrangements are baaed upon those which proved such a spectacular success at the Dunedin queen carnival last year, so nothing should be wanting to make the pageant highly attractive. The festivities which will follow the coronation ceremony will be provided by well-known artists, and in addition to the ‘ Silver Lining ’ ballet, which was so warmly acclaimed throughout the recent ‘ Sally ’ season, there are to be solo dances, instrumental and vocal items, humorous recitations, and songs. Begg’s Orchestra will provide the music. During the evening the carnival art union will be drawn and the prize winners announced. The box plan is now open at Begg’s, and all those who wish to obtain the best view of the proceedings should reserve seats in the dress circle or orchestral stalls. There is no fee for booking. tence for the same murder, but in neither instance was the triple execution carried out. In 1927, Daniel Driscoll and two brothers, John and Edward Rowlands, were sentenced at Cardiff for the murder of David Lewis. While awaiting execution John Rowlands lost his reason, and was removed to Broadmoor. The other two were hanged. Three Brighton men—George Donovan, Pereival Taylor, and James Weaver—sentenced to death in 1928 for the murder of a retired chemist—were reprieved in dramatic circumstances. Taylor was to have been hanged at Pentonville, the other two at Wandsworth. At both prisons the executioners had arrived and the scaffolds had been erected; but at the eleventh hour the Home Secretary, Sir William Joyn-son-Hicks, commuted the sentences to penal servitude for life. Donovan, in the Dartmoor mutiny in January, 1932, saved the life of Colonel Turner, a prison commissioner. His sentence was reduced by five years. The last triple execution for the murder of one person took place at Carlisle in 1886. when three London men were hanged for the death of a policeman.