THE COMING DURBAR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1280, 8 November 1911, Page 11

THE COMING DURBAR.

AND SOAIE FIGURES. 'The durbar is going to an expensivo entertainment to English visitors, as it probably wiil be to any Australians who inay have decided to attend it', says tho English correspondent of the "Age." General Sir Donald Robertson, who has chargo of the arrangements which aro being uiado at the India Office for English society tourist-, estimates that the trip 'will cost them about i.'-100 per head. The return steamer fare and neccssary outlay m India is put at .f.'ISO, and lie allows .£2O for incidental expenses. A "guest" provided for ill the principal hotel at Delhi cam)) will be charged per day; or, it the prospect or having to pay at that rate should make him too conscious of the irony of his private designation, he can get less luxurious accommodation at another hotel at per day. For economical persons there will be tent shelter at tho extraordinary modest figure of .£2. per day. Though Sir Donald Robertson's estimates are issued with official authority, they are discounted by Sir Henry Lunn, tho well-known travel manager, who asserts that tho trip can be made for about »CISO. Perhaps it can be, after a fashion. The tourist will probably count his rupees three times a day dur"f stay oil shore. Many uf the wealthier members of the House of Commoris aro fuming at their inability to join the outflowing stream of society folk, owing to the reassembling of Parliament lor an autumn session. Tho political machine has been worked at unusual pressure since the present Government came "™ power, anil members all know that with Home Rule and half a dozen oilier rm stl ' ) -l ccts 'n prospect they will have little clianco for rest next year.