PRECAUTIONS AGAINST OUTRAGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 1

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST OUTRAGE.

Owing to the rumours that an attempt would be made to use dynamite on. Tuesday, Westminster Abbey has been thoroughly searched, and is being most zealously guarded. The audience will be officially warned to avoid a panic in the event of any unforseen incident happening. The interior of the Abbey is completely changed, and is decorated with great splendour. The seating accomodation has been largely increased, and the seats now reach nearly to the roof. The route of the procession will be of unqualified grandeur, and masts, festoons, and flags will line the road, The houses will be gaily decorated with bunting, and numerous stands are to be provided, from which the public will have a fine opportunity of •witnessing the Royal procession. Many of the clubs have erected elegant' balconies. These will be illuminated on a most extensive scale, but there is deficiency of originality and artistic merit. Some striking combinations are, however, being arranged. Arrangements are also being made to illuminate the whole of the. streets and various squares. Two triumphal arches are to be erected. The Royal Exchange is to be lighted with 25,000 coloured lamps, and the Aank of, England has made arrangements for .their

premises to be illuminated by 10,000 gas jets of striking designs. The decorations of the Mansion House are of splendid appearance, and there are numerous coluwns of garlanded lamps! The principal nowspaper offices, banks,', insurance offices, and warehouses will* also be brilliantly illuminated. The gateway and walls of Marlborough House are specially well decorated. The Ambassadors will also illuminate their residences. The provinces have arranged to enthusiastically celebrate the Jubilee. The deserving poor of London are receiving many treats. The Queen to-morrow will discard mourning, and will appear in a U vender costume. One hundred representatives of the working class have been invited to witness the ceremony at Westminster Abbey. The Archbishops of Carterbury and York, and the Bishops of London and Bedford will officiate. The choir will comprise three hundred voices, specially reserved to sing Prince Albert's Te Deum, and a special anthem written by Dr. Bridge.