KING’S JUBILEE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 108, 16 February 1935, Page 5

KING’S JUBILEE.

IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIAL. PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES. United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 14. An impressive ceremonial will* be observed when, oil May 9, the King and Queen visit Westminster Hall and receive loyal addresses and congratulafrom both Houses of Parliament. Members and officials of both Houses, his Majesty’s Judges and members of the British Parliaments overseas, who then will be yisiting London, will be present to a total number of about 2000. \ The King’s speech, in, reply to the addresses, will he read by the Loid Chancellor for the House of Lords and the Speaker for the House of Commons and wall be broadcast. A complete gramophone record of the proceedings will he made. There will be no decorations in tho Westminster Hall, hut the beautiful roof of the chamber, which, despite its great age, is in a splendid state of preservation, will he floodlit. ■— .British Official Wireless.

NAVAL REVIEW AT SPITHEAD.

LONDON, February 15. Mr Hector Bywater (riaval correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph’’) says: . -\ M : '" u ' “The naval review at Spithead on July 16 will be the most imposing spectacle of the kind for 21 years. It is likely tp include nine battleships, two battle-cruisers, three aircraft-carriers, 36 flotilla-leaders and destroyers, many submarines and auxiliary craft, probably totalling 70 vessels. The total of officers and men is likely to exceed 24,000. , ■_ , “If precedent is followed, the fleets will he moored in three lines, through which will steam the * Royal yacht, which, after the review or on the next day, will lead, the combined fleets seaward for tactical exercises.’ 5 ' ■