JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1656, 22 June 1887, Page 2

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS.

GREAT BRITAIN. A telegram dated June 19th gave the following information as to what was to be done. The interior of the Abbey is completely changed, and is decorated with great splendor. The seating accommodation has been largely increased, and seats now reach nearly to the roof. The Royal Exchange is to be lighted with 25,000 colored lamps, and the Bank of England has made arrangements for their premises to be illuminated by 10,000 gas jets of striking designs. The decorations at the Mansion House have a splendid appearance, and there are numerous columns of garlanded lamps. An incident is that the Queen on Jubilee Day discarded mourning. LONDON, June 20. Her Majesty the Queen will arrive at Buckingham Palace to-day from Windsor Castle. Prince Rudolph, the Crown Prince of Austria, and the Duke of Achsta, who represents the King of Italy, arrived in London yesterday. London is crammed with visitors. Throughout yesterday the streets were thronged by sightseers. The German and Austrian press comments on the Queen's Jubilee in the most cordial spirit. LONDON, June 21. The following Jubilee honors have been announced . — Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria has been created a Knight of the Garter ; Admiral Tryon, late in command of the Australian naval station, has been created a Knight Commander of the Bath. An earldom has been conferred on Baron Lonsborough. Sir John Staubyns, Sir William Armstrong, Colonel Sir J. Hogg, George Slater Booth, and H. W. Eastou have been raised to the peerage. Thirteen new baronets have been created, including Sir Algernon Borthwick, W. H. A. Ouldsworth, W. Pearce, and Charles Dalrymple, and numerous knighthoods have been conferred, among the recipients being the mayors of York, Liverpool, Leeds, and Windsor, and the Lord-provost of Edinburgh. This morning has broken cloudlessly, and gives every prospect of fine weather for the Jubilee celebration.