Gorgeous Meals.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 26 January 1910, Page 63

Gorgeous Meals.

On their visit to Baroda, in the Presidency of Bombay, on November 10 last, the \ iceroy and Lady Minto inspected the State jewels, which are among the finest collections in the world. They are kept in the old Nazar Bagh Palace, and are estimated to be worth upwards of L 3.000.000. Here (says the “Times of India”) one may see a famous diamond collar composed of 500 diamonds, in five rows, and two rows of emeralds. In the pendant is one beautiful diamond, larger than the Kohinoor. called “The Star of the South.” The ‘re arc chains of exquisite pearls, all about the size of a small nut, and perfect in shape and colour. There are gleaming necklaces of sapphires and rubies and rings worth a king’s ransom. Greatest of all in attraction, perhaps, is a carpet woven of strings of pearls, with the centre ami corners of diamonds. II is 10ft long and Oft wide, and cost £200,000. and took three years to complete. This was made for the Gaekwar Khandi Rao. and wae intended as a present for a lady with whom he was in love.