ROYALTY IN INDIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 5

ROYALTY IN INDIA.

THE NEW CAPITAL. By >,iiDk —Press Association—Copyright Delhi, December 14. The King and Queen to-morrow will each lay a foundation stone of the new capital. CLEMENCY TO POLITICAL PRISONERS. Received 15, 11 p.m. London, December 15. In the House of Commons, Mr. E. S. •Montagu stated that out of 220 political prisoners in India 183 were being released, or a portion of their sentences remitted, in connection with the durbar. GREAT REVIEW. A PRINCE AND HIS SWORD. ANOTHER TENT AFIRE.. MANY HONORS CONFERRED. Received 16, 1 a.m. Delhi, December 15. The review of fifty thousand British and Indian troops was a magnificent spectacle, lasting an hour and a half. The Maharajah rode at the head of his own troops, including the child Prince of Bahawalpur, carrying a sword longer than himself and riding a huge camel at the head of his camel corps. In the afternoon a great audience assembled in the investitive tent. An hour before the King was due a cry of "Fircl" was raised. The glow of the fire through the tent caused the crowd to rise. The people threatened to rush the doors, but cries of "Sit down!" steadied the audience. It was discovered that a neighboring tent was afire owing to a bicycle lamp exploding. The excitement subsided when the King arrived. He was wearing his robes and the Star of India. He invested the Queen with the Grand Cross of India. Two hours' picturesque ceremony followed, 03 Knights, 200 Companions, and. members of different orders being decorated.