CORONATION FESTIVITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10246, 24 May 1911, Page 3

CORONATION FESTIVITIES.

PRIME MINISTERS ENTERTAINED. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received May 23, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 22. The Prime Ministers and their ladies attended luncheon at the Palace. The delegates afterwards met at the Colonial Office to arrange social engagements connected with the Sonference. CAPETOWN, May 22. Three hundred and fifty Coronation troops, including forty-eight from Rhodesia, have sailed. LONDON, May 22. The Prince of Wales, the Dukes of Connaught and Argyle, and Messrs Asquith and Harcourt were present at the King's lunch to the overseas Premiers. The King chatted with the delegates individually for half an hour. There were no speeches. Other guests were officials from the Colonial Office, and ladies and gentlemen of the Court. The Hon. Dr. and Mrs Findlay w,ere among those who were present. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22. Oecumenical, a patriarch of Constantinople, is presenting King George on the occasion of his Coronation with a beautiful copy of an ancient icon of St. George, which was discovered m an old Byzantine church at Salonika. LONDON, May 22. At the King's lunch Lady Ward sat on His Majesty's left hand and Princess Christina on his right.