The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1911. THE KOHINOOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1911. THE KOHINOOR.

Costly raiment ami tine attire find much favour in the eyes of Eastern peoples, and in this fact we may obtain tlie explanation of tlie recent cables announcing what King George and Queen Mary would take with them to India. The King has decided not to take the Royal Regalia to India with him, probably because the national emblems cannot be exposed to

any risk. Ho will wear his new crown, which includes the huge diamond presented to him by the Union of South Africa, and Queen Mary will take her Coronation coronet, with the Kohinoor diamond. This famous stone will thus return to India some sixty years after it was surrendered to Queen \ ictoria hy the last native ruler of the Punjab, on the annexation of Ids country hy the British. Its appearance on the forehead of India’s Queen will he one of the most notable

events of the Durbar in the eyes ol the Indian people. Tradition tells that the Kohinoor was worn by an Indian emperor 5000 years ago, and that it passed from one royal house to another, being regarded always with deep veneration. “Who holds the Kohinoor rules India” was a saying among the Indian peoples a thousand rears ago and the “mountain of light used to arouse the keenest envy and the bitterest hatred among tno ambitions rajahs. One writer

says that one of the superstitions connected with the stone is that it brings dire disaster to the man who wears it, while on the other hand it is the hearer of good fortune if its

nearer is a woman. King Edward proposed to have it set in his crown '■cd many Indians petitioned him tc abandon the idea. He yielded tact--1 ally and tbo diamond was mounted in Vuoen Alexandra’s diadem, where it •cm:!’.tied until last year. Another remarkable jewel to he worn hy Queen iVlary at the Durbar is a large diamond lotus which includes the six magnificent stones that wore produced from the fragments that the Culliimn diamond yielded in the process of cutting.