THE GREAT DURBAR.
TO BE “AMAZING, DAZZLING BRILLIANT PAGEANT." GIGANTIC PREPARATIONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright . Calcutta, Dec. 2°, Rehearsals of the Durbar indicate that an amazing,dazzling, and brilliant pageant will be witnessed. There will be a hundred ruling chiefs, including those of tho Aden Hinterland and Shun States. Tho camp is fifty squuro miles. * There are eighty thousand tents with a quarter of a million inhabitants, includisi forty-five thousand troops. There aro massed bauds of two thousan instrumentalists. Shoals of visitors of every race creed in tho East uro arriving. Tho camp possesses twelve mile railway and thirty-five miles of roads. There aro sixty tons of oloetric ins* tion. Thoro is a store of thirty thousand t of food. Tho Viceroys' camp comprises fffte hundred touts. There aro fifteen camp. The great chief covors eight milos, and i a gorgeous spectacle.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 706, 30 December 1902, Page 2
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140THE GREAT DURBAR. Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 706, 30 December 1902, Page 2
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