THE CORONATION.

Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 6

THE CORONATION.

THE PROCESSION. Canada and Australia lead. NEW NEWFOUNDLAND SECOND. THE KING AND~ r QDEEN FOLLOW. THE EMPIRE’S REPRESENTATIVES. Preu Association—By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, June 19. (Received June 20, at 9.35 a.m.) ' The following official announcement has been made of the relative order of the Royal proccsjion:— The first carriage heading the procession will be preceded by a force of colonial cavalry and artillery, and will contain Mr Barton (Premier of the Commonwealth) and Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Premier of Canada) and the members of their families, and will be followed by a force of Australian and New Zealand cavalry. The second carriage will contain Mr Seddon (Premier of New Zealand), Mrs and Miss Seddon, and Mr R. Bond (Premier of Newfoundland), and will be followed by New Zealand and Cape cavalry. The third carriage will contain Sir Gordon Sprigg (Premier of Cape Colony) and Sir A. H. Hime (Premier of Natal) and their respective daughters, and will bo escorted by Cape and Natal cavalry. Four other colonial carriages will follow, and three containing distinguished representatives of the Indian Empire. Then follows the King’s procession, which will be led by a naval gun detachment, followed by representative squadrons of cavalry, batteries of artillery, officers, aides-de-camp, deputies, foreign officers, and thirteen carriaaes conveying ' members of the Royal Household and the families of foreign representatives. The state coaches, containing the King and the Queen, come last of a long line, with the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught riding to the right and left respectively. A force of military bring up the rear. THE PAPAL MISSION. ROME, June 19. (Received June 20, at 9.10 a.m.) The Pope’s mission to King Edward’s Coronation remains in Paris until after the ceremony. MR SEDDON’S MOVEMENTS. "LONDON, June 19. Mr Seddon was present at the great garden party at Hatfield House (Lord Salisbury’s country residence). Mr Seddon visited the New Zealanders at Alexandra Palace in the afternoon, and responded to the toast of “ The Colonies ’ at the Leather-sellers’ Company’s dinner in the evening. INSPECTION OF COLONIALS. HOME' TROOPS’ HOLIDAY. MILITARY PRISONERS LIBERATED. LONDON, June 19. The Duke of Connaught inspected 1,500 colonial troops at the Alexandra Palace, including seventy-nine New Zealanders under Colonel Porter. At the King’s instance, the Home district troops receive two days’s holiday at and after the Coronation. The unexpired sentences of military prisoners will be remitted in the case of those serving sentences for less serious offences. THE AUSTRALASIAN SQUADRON. SYDNEY, June 19. . On Coronation Day the forenoon will be observed as a Sunday by the fleet. Divine service will be held on the Royal Arthur at ten o’clock, a royal salute will be fired at noon, and at one, o'clock the whole of the men of the fleet will land and take part in the Coronation review at Centennial Park. The ships will be illuminated at night.