KING'S CORONATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 375, 26 March 1902, Page 2

KING'S CORONATION.

London, Feb. 8. Now that the coronation route has been settled, the owners of houses which will afford a view of the procession are evicting their tenants wherever possible, as was done at the time of Queen Victoria’s jubilee. The greatest sufferers are the poor people occupying rooms overlooking the route on the squalid streets along the south side of the Thames. Extensive plans have been prepared already for erecting stands along the route, and ridiculous stories are published of colossal prices alleged to have been refused by householders as favorable points. The King, it is declared, has expressed severe reprobation of the efforts of

aristocratic householders to utilise the coronation to make money by letting their houses to Americans and at the sam e time evading their duty as providers of entertainments. |

The Duke of Devonshire goes to the rescue, as usual, promising to give a fancy dress ball more gorgeous than that during the jubilee. Lords Salisbury, Kosebery and Lansdowne also have signified their intention of giving grand entertainments. 'Colonial Secretary Chamberlain is planning a great reception for colonial visitors, to be attended by the King. His similar effort at hospitality at the jubilee was marred, owing to inefficient police ararrangements the street got so blocked with carriages that the then Prince of Wales and half Mr Chamberlain’s bidden guests never succeeded in getting near the house he had hired for the occasion,