the Ceremony of Laying the Foundation Stone ot the new Town Hall will be given to Oincers Commanding Sections when in mass in Featherstonstreet. ROYAL PROCESSION. 9. A Staff Officer. 10 yards. 10 yards. D Battery Field Artillery. Four Companies Mounted Rifles of the Ist Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles. 30 yards. Aides-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor, or Staff Officer. 20 yards. Orderly. Orderly. 20 yards. Orderly. 10 yards. Staff Carriage. 10 yards. Staff Carriage. 10 yards. Staff Carriage. 10 yards. Orderly. Orderly. 10 yards. Sergeant of Royal Escort. Sergeant of Royal Escort. 5 yards. Advance Party of H.R.H. Escort (the Alexandra Mounted Rifles). 15 yards. Orderly. Orderly. * 15 yards. Equerry. Equerry. His Royal Highness's Carriage. 6 yards. 6 yards. Second in Command of Escort. Officer Commanding Escort. 5 yards. Trumpeter. 15 yards. Commandant and Staff. 10 yards. Rear Portion of H.R.H. Escort. 10 yards. Officer Commanding District and District Staff. 10 yards. Remainder of Mounted Troops. (2nd, 3rd, and 4th Battalions Wellington Mounted Rifles.) 10 yards. Staff Officer. 10. During the Procession Bands will play one verse of the National Anthem, each Band to begin playing when the company in front of it presents arms. 11. All the Mounted Troops in the Procession will, after their Royal Highnesses shall have entered Government House, proceed down Bowenstreet, crc«s Lambton Quay at Stout-street, thence to Jervois quay, and be drawn up in line, facing the Harbour (the D Battery of Artillery having, after firing the salute, taken up its position at the Band Rotunda on the right of the Mounted Line), and await further orders.
FOR WEDNESDAY, 19th JUNE. 1. Presentation by his Royal Highness of South African Medals at Parliamentary Buildings at 11 a.m., where a Guard of Honour furnished by 2nd Battalion Wellington Rifles will be drawn up at 10.30 a.m. A Mounted Escort furnished by the 3rd Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles to be at Government House at 10.35 a.m. 2. A Mounted Escort furnished by the 4th Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles to be at Government House at 9.30 p.m., and a Guard of Honour at Parliamentary Buildings at same hour, to be furnished by the 3rd Battalion Wellington Rifles. FOR THURSDAY, 20th JUNE. 1. All available Troops of Wellington and Nelson Districts will embark on Transports according to instructions to be hereafter issued, between the hours of 4 and 9 p.m. for Lyttelton. en route to Christchuroh. FOR FRIDAY, 21st JUNE. 1. A Mounted Escort furnished by Ist Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles to be at Government House at 11.30 a.m., and a Guard of Honour to be furnished by the 4th Battalion Wellington Rifles, at the site of New Railway Buildings at 11.45 a.m. 2. Their Royal Highnesses leave for Lyttelton at 3.40 p.m. A Guard of Honour to be furnished by the sth Battalion Wellington Rifles to be at Government House at 3.30 p.m. A Guard of Honour to be furnished by the Wellington Naval Brigade at the Wharf at same hour, and a Mounted Escort to be furnished by the 2nd Battalion Wellington Mounted Rifles to be at Government House at same hour. 3. All Mounted Troops not detailed for Special duties and all Infantry Troops who have not previously embarked for Lyttelton to parade in Featherston-street in rear of Government Building at 2.30 p.m. for the purpose of being detailed to line the streets from Government House to the Wharf via Museum, Sydney, Charlotte, Bunny, and Featherston streets, to Queen's Wharf.
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Free Lance, Volume I, Issue 50, 15 June 1901, Page 15
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