KING'S BIRTHDAY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 826, 26 May 1910, Page 5

KING'S BIRTHDAY.

KING DESIRES NO CELEBRATION THIS .YEAH. ' ' B> Teleirrapli—l'ress Association—Oopyrlcht Melbourne, May 25. Lord Dudley, Governor-General of All 9. tralia, has received from the Enrl of Crcwe (Secretary*of'State for the Colon-, ies) intimation that Kins George desires that there should be no celebration of ' tho King's Birthday (June 3) during the current year anywhere within the Empire. : MESSAGE TO THE GOVERNOR. A Press Association telegram received last night from Greyinouth shrtes that i his Excellency the- Governor hns received, and has forwarded to the Prime Minister, a message, identical with the above, hearing on the non-celebration (his year of the King's Birthday. In view of the above views, it is to bo , assumed that the 'following general order, which has been issued to the officers . commanding the military districts in. New Zealand, will be withdrawn: "You will parade the troops under your command for ceremonial parade on ; June 3 at thoir respective towns and ' local centres. ' . > • ' "A feu-de-joie. and a Koyal .salute of 21 guns to be fired at noon; this salute te . be fired by tiie battery. "Tho parade is not to exceed onehonr. No railway passes are to be issued or unnecessary expense incurred." It hod also been arranged that his Exoellencv the Governor (Lord Phinket) shonld'hold a levee at Parliament House, on the afternoon of .Tune 2, at 4.30 p.m. ■V guard of honour was to have been detailed from Hie Royal New Zealand Aγtillcrv, while lire mounted escort for hisExcellency was to be furnished by the Herelaunga Mounted Biiles. .