BEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 14573, 23 May 1911, Page 7

BEAR AND FAR.

The most attractive feature of tho Coronation celebrations in Wellington from a spectacular point of view will bo the grand military Toview to be held in Newtown Park. Troops to the number of 3,000 odd will take part, including the Junior and Senior Cadets and the Boy Scouts. Tho headquarters staff of the Defence Force* have arranged the programme. The general officer commanding will accompany His Exellency the Governor at the review. On the arrival of the Governor at the park gates the troops will be called to attention, and arms will be sloped. His Excellency ie timed to arrive at noon. He will bo received at the steps leading down on to the green by the Acting Prime Minister (Hon. J. Carroll), Ministers of the Crown, and the Mayor of Wellington (Mr T. M. Wilford, M.P.). Tho Ministers and the Commandant of tho Forces (Major-general Godley) wil piocoed direct to the saluting-point, and bo received by a royal salute. The colors will be lowered and the band in attendance, will strike up 'God save tho King' simultaneously wall tho commencement of the firing. The troops will then be inspected by the Governor and party. At Auckland, Christ church, and Dunedin, where large muptorture expected, the Wellington procedure is to be followed as closely as possible. A contract has been signed in Sydney to erect the loftiest building of its kind in the Commonwealth. It will rise to a height of 165 ft above the pavement level, and as it is to be erected on the heights of King street it will command tho most. ! extensive panoramic views of any building south of the Line. The building referred to (says Sydney ' Herald ') is a block of business premises and offices to be known as " Culwalla Chambers," to be erected with frontages to King and streets, for I)r Herbert J. W. Marks and Mr Walter M. Marks, the trustees of the estate of the. late Sarah Jane Marks. The cost will involvo a capital outlay of considerably over £IOO,OOO, and tho time for completion has boon fixed at t\Vo ycare. The building, by reason of its magnitudo and height, and its general high-class appointments, marks a notable advance m the commercial buildings of Sydney.