VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10269, 22 June 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

i ♦ -- I United Press Association —i>y Electric . Telegraph—Copyright. ■) VERSE AS PARLIAMENTARIANS ENTERTAINED AT DINNER. SPEECH BY MR HEATON RHODES (Received June 21, 5.5 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. Mr Hcaten Rhodes, of New Zealand, responding to the toast of Our Guests at the dinner to Oversea Parliamentarians, given by members of the Imperial Parliament, said that when the representatives of the Dominions, as backwoodsmen, returned to the bush to wield the axe or minster I their flocks, they would look back with kindly memories to that gathering within those ancient walls, and Lord Rosebery's eloquence would ring in their ears. They came to England to pay allegiance to a King who was no stranger to them. His Majesty was known throughout the Empire as no British Sovereign had been known before. He looked forward to welcoming the Prince of' Wales when, following in his father's footsteps, he would set out ) to tread the path of Empire. (Cheers). ' Throughout the Dominions it was recognised that the Motherland had demanded nothing of them in the past. She had given them protection and had made enormous sacrifices for them, and though, under her protection, they had blossomed forth as ycung nations, they had no desire to become separate nations. (Cheers.) They realised fully what, their fate | 'under, such circumstances would be, i and their desire was rather to draw tighter the bonds of Empire. I Sir Joseph Ward's scheme of an < Imperial Council had not been' adopted. It was perhaps a premature scheme, but surely not too high an j idea to aim at. (Cheers.) The Domin- j ' ions felt bound to share the burdens j of Empire, and they felt that in doing so they must have a voice in the settlement of foreign questions affecting j their destinies. Lord Rosebery had i asked what the Dominions' message ! to-the Mother Country was. He ventured to formulate this reply: "We desire not to be shareholders in the great Company of Empire, but partners.". (Cheers). Mr Moltens, Speaker of the South , African Parliament, emphasized the ) entire absence of election petitions in South Africa, and the perfect smoothness of the recent strenuous Parlia- ' mentary session. Racialism, he said, was a thing of the past. The best form patriotism could assume in the Dominions was for each to keep its own house in order, and make its own corner of the Empire strong. Strength in the individual parts meant the strength of the whole. That being so, he thought South Africa had won the Empire's confidence. (Cheers.) ;

CORONATION DECORATIONS. IMMENSE SUMS BEING SPENT. (Received June 21, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. The decorations and illuminations jn preparation for Coronation are being completed. Many banks, insurance companies, and clubs are spending £SOO each. . The Westminster City Council is spending £IO,OOO in the decoration of Whitehall, including tiie transplanting of the electric standards in order not to obstruct the-procession. , Whitehall is being decorated with columns 35 feet high, surmounted with white lions carrying portcullis and griffins, and winged victories, carrying the shields of British Kings. Near the New Zealand arch, the province of Ontario has erected handsome pylons showing the farmer shearing sheep and bearing the word "prosperity" with the horn of plenty. Fleet Street is decorated with wreathed masts, carrying festoons of evergreens, with alternate lions and unicorns. The newspaper offices have particularly elaborate decorations and illuminations, with alternate lions and unicorns. St. Paul's Churchyard is decorated with shields and banners of the Patron Saints of the United Kingdom and the City. Huge flower-bells are hung in Cheapside, recalling Bow Bells. Th? Bank of England is outlining its columns, roof, and architectural lines with five thousand lamps. The Mansion House is similarly outlined with amber-green lights. ~ Mansion House square' is decorated with Corinthian columns bearing griffins.. The business houses in the City are decorated , with crystal crowns and the Royal monographs, some costing £2OO each. There is a beautiful laburnum colour scheme in King William Street, leading to the London Bridge, where an elaborate scheme of lattice pilasters is connected by festoons of purple wistaria. CORONATION HONOURS. AN ADDITIONAL LIST. (Received June 21, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 20. The following further Coronation Honours nre',announced: — EARLS OF UNITED KINGDOM. Lord Loreburn,, Lord Chancellor of England. Lord Ro&ebcrv, who will assume the style of Earl of Midlothian. Field-Marshall Lord; Methuen. . General Sir William Nicholson. VISCOUNTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Lord Kiollys, private secretary" to ' His Majesty the King. The Hon. A. Murray, Master of Elibank. The Right Hon. A. Akers-Douglas,

P.C., M.P. for the St. Augustine's Division of Kent. BARONS. Captain Sir A. F. Acland-Hood, Bart., M.P. for tho Rhondda Division of Glamorganshire. Mr T. G. Ashton, M.P., for the Luton Division of Bedfordshire. Mr A. C Corbett, M.P. for the Pradestown Division of Glasgow. PRIVY COUNCILLORS. Sir Rufus Isaacs, M.P., SolictorGeneral. Mr Charles Fenwick, M.P. for the Wansbeck Division of Northumbei--land. Mr A. Bonar-Law, M.P. for the Dulwich Division of Camberwell. Mr W. Hayes Fisher, M.P. for Fulham. Sir Frederick Pollock, formerly Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at I Oxford. IMPERIAL SERVICE ORDER. ' Mr William Davidson, Secretary of Public Works, Victoria. Mr E. Dobbie, Solicitor-General of Tasmania. Mr J. Jones, Secretary for Public Works, South Australia. Captain John Mackay, harbourmaster, Queensland. Mr Clayton Mason, Collector of Customs. Western Australia. I ORDER OF THE BATH. ' Admiral, King Hall, C.B. Major-General Kirkpatrick, Inspector of the Commonwealth Forces.