SALUTES AND RAIN.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10998, 22 June 1901, Page 9

SALUTES AND RAIN.

A correspondent seguing ifiwd!f' < 'JuJQitar Pltrehw" writes frw a*io!k>w*:~"lt"is fenriaunoed a salute is to tie fired hy the Battery in tlie Park on Maitdnf aert, about 10.20 ».m.» when tine Did» "and Duchess start for the Review... Ijdany thousands of spectators will bo ia the, Park, not to mention the 'volunteers, and & the firing in the present state of the woather will iilmost oertadnh; be followed by «, downpour of rain, may I beg of you, .in tbe name of common sense, to use yopr.vjduabj'e influence'to have the -salute postponed, until after the inarch past is accomplished, andtheir Royal Highnesses are leaving the stand, ad rain then would not roar the proceedings so much, or - destroy the pleasure of thousands of ladies dim) (.WUmn "