25 YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 42, 13 November 1936, Page 8

25 YEARS AGO

The Delhi Durbar

(Brom “The Dominion," Nov. 14, 1911.) The departure of their Majesties the King and Queen from London for India aud the Durbar, was marked by an enthusiastic demonstration. The route from the Palace to Victoria Station was crowded. The people loudly cheered the Cabinet Ministers and foreign ambassadors. The P. and O. steamer Medina, 12,500 tons, with the King and Queen aboard, left Portsmouth. The fleet at Spithead saluted, and the first division of the Home Fleet accompanied the Medina down the Channel, providing a fine spectacle. During the passage of the ship through the Red Sea Turkey has agreed to relight the lights extinguished owing to the war.

The Maori electors of certain districts of New Zealand will shortly have their first opportunity ot voting at licensing polls. Preparations are now being made by the Department of Native Affairs, iu conjunction with the Electoral Department, for the taking of polls under the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910,

The new style of voting paper which is to be used at the coming general election is so designed as to provide further security for the secrecy of the ballot. Hitherto the roll number of every voter has been written on the corner of the paper, and this corner has been turned down and gummed, so that the number was hidden. The new paper will not bear the electors’ number at all, but it will bear a number which will afford a less direct means of ascertaining the identity in cases where it may lie necessary to do so.