The Coronation.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 245, 21 August 1902, Page 3

The Coronation.

London, August 18.

A phonographic record of the Fijians singing “ Home, Sweet Home” has been sent to the King. Baron Hayashi, Japanese Minister in London, informed a correspondent of the Standard that sending the Japanese squadron to the naval review was not merely the act of the Japanese Government ; it was even more so the act of the people, who insisted on paying every honour to the King. Baron Hayashi added that the visit, of Prince Akihito Kometsu, the Japanese Envoy, to the Coronation marked the character of the alliance between Britain and Japan. August 19. Prior to the dispersal of the warships the King, in the Royal yacht and escorted by forty torpedo boats, the Alberta and other yachts, traversed the line eastwards and anchored at St. Helen’s. A gale was raging at the time, and the weather was misty, with occasional torrents of rain. The fleet then steamed seaward in two columns. The foreign warships which were present paraded before the King, saluting and manning the yards as they passed. The King’s patting message to the fleet was, “ Magnificent flight; splendid order kept.”