The Korean Court.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1910, Page 4

The Korean Court.

THE v'OIUCn HrLl'%; ov 7."! QUETTE.

Tl . :■? was nnir li heat tburnin<mrnflv in Korean ' Court cir-les < nn iiiiinrtiinatc lapse from tip s-icre.rl rnlos of etiquette. Tt appears Irom tho Japanese newspapers that in offering Glrand Cordons to Pnnce iakeda, and Asaka, on the occasion of their nuptials wit.li. daughters of the Emperor of Japan, the Korean S'overejgn failed to send at the same time appropriate deeo'rations foi the three Imperial brides. This railu re 111 etiquette ha vino; heen made dear to the Imperial .household steps were hastily taken to lemedy it. and a special envoy received orders to set out at 'once CIL rf? tl,ree FirstClass Orders . But when it came to obeying thus command, the officials discovered that the necessary insignia were, not in the possession of the lin penal Household Department, and accordingly a choice had to he ma tie between two alterna-

I t,ves -cither to postpone the embassy until new insignia could be prepared, or to have recourse to old o„e S The latter plan seemed pieferable, and . in order to carry ia out the desired insignia were taken from three Korean Princessti.e fw 0 ° la , d ! es ' to lrJlf >m were explained, readily give their consent, but the third flhb received n'o such explanation' not unnaturally concluded, that she had incurred the Imperial displeasmo in some signal manner, and IZlf'f "' as 80 v, ' olent that the 2 i ' I < i )l ' V ™ me to light. Ultimately the difficulty was solved by suspending the despatch of the tlTlCo enVOy T) en,tirustin,g to ~K 7 'i n P, '. ,noe imperial the of conveying to the three Japanese Princesse.s a document announcing the presentation of the orders, tlie actual delivery o/f the insignia being postponed. "