Show CORONATION f A f it WEEK IN fN LONDON LONDONi I i 17 1 1 the Worlds Metropolis Crowded With Tourists COLONIAL PREMIERS PREMIER SORE v t t AND un t POR POD ROYAL VISITORS I i y T ONON N Prince of I L I baft a R BUST day cIA yesterday in ill the royal re n related 1 ted to him bis family who arrive In hi i ii i London Lond He n paid Mid three separate visits mu i ito 1 to the Victoria station for tor this purpose where a special room roomi gy ga gawith J with palms and aDd flower flowen had bad been ar arranged 11 ranged The last Jut guest to be received 1 by bi the prince wu was the of 1 Russia n who wb had arrived on OIl one ODe of ot the j 4 Russian Imperial yachts and ad landed at to J Gravesend The enormous and JId daily dally growing crowds and the babel of for foreign eign tongues hi London Leaden may f be so 10 far the moat striking feature of the coronation ceremonies 4 4 Early ParI morning sees ieee crowds of cyclists I I f mostly mo women wheeling along alon the t th J routes of ot the processions to view the tha that t ii decorations Later in the day d i there I t begins an endless endle stream of vehicles of every conceivable description de from the aristocratic equipages of th wealthy to humble costermonger or it market carts cart containing entire families I seated on chairs and stoote Brakes Bracel crowded with tourists of or every nationality naU naUty are driven over the j Aide ide seats on omnibuses e and on the 4 side aIde seats on Oft and on th 1 i sidewalks are an dense den d nse e masses maises m of ot slowly iC moving pedestrians The commissioner loner of ot police has bu issued 1 J 4 an Ala explanatory notice DOUce saying that the ther r barriers which have hare been erected along 11 4 routes rout will not necessarily be closed led t t daring g the processions but from pros pres present tri ri eAt ent appearances auch a course will be hO absolutely imperative to prevent seri son one us accidents i Royal Dinner Party Parly i King Kin dward and Queen Alexandria gave a grand dinner party tonight tonJ ht at Buckingham bam palace palce to seventy enty royal 1 J personages who practically represented I ir j the sovereigns of 0 all the monarchies of of the world The list of ot their majesties guts guests was headed beaded by bT the of or Rus Bus Russia 4 sia ela who arrived In London this even evening evenIng ing Iq and included an imposing array aiTay of ot c princes nc and princesses and d all the if members of the British royal family f Buckingham palace Jace p was wu beautifully 1 decorated and the bands of the Grena Grenadier 1 dier and the COld tream Guards Guarda dis discoursed dl discoursed coursed throughout the evening The dinner was followed by a brilliant re reception reet reI I et which was wu attended by the members of the suites of all the for foreign eign elp potentates now Ow in London Joseph Chamberlain the colonial see sec secretary and Md Mrs Chamberlain received the ue premiers and other distin distinguished i visitors from Great at their London residence re to tonight tobt tonight night bt Coronation A full and aDd strictly private rehearsal 4 of the tile coronation ceremonies to be held hed hedin v in Westminster abbey took place there 1 this afternoon in which everybody i J with the exception of the royal person personages personages ages ape and the participants in the mu musical j real and religious features of the functions itS rehearsed their respective te duties dul 1 The be archbishop of Canterbury Rev Re Frederick Temple and the lord chan chancellor chanI the Sari Xul of 0 were I t among those tho e who were drilled in their J parts rt under the superintendence of the luke of Norfolk the earl marshal i The rehearsal lasted for two hours hou houa a and 4 after it was wu over the musical mu ical ser Mr services vices for tor the tM coronation was wan rehearsed to bi full in the die church adjoining the ab abbey c boy bey boyThe The crowds were so 80 great tonight in Trafalgar ar square lUre B and in the various leading from this point that the omnibuses found it almost impossible ble to 10 proceed The congested condition of traffic above ground Around was wu practically repeated in the various un underground L routes and the travel re resources resources sources of the ue two penny tube and the 1 steam stem underground lines JInes were ere heavily axll taxed Passengers Pue on these lines had to wait alt long before they were able to toj j board the overcrowded trains ti L 3 Colonial Premiers t Speaking at a luncheon given to the 1 colonial premiers by the North Stat Staf Staffordshire tor chamber of commerce today toda todaR R J 1 Seddon premier minister of New ealand aad complained that aa an attempt t had ld 4 been made m d to t prejudice the Po f position 1 JOlt tion of the premiers ra before they ar T arrived Tr rived raved r ved in England 1 Be said I the tM Cl l nie had no desire deike de to raise the th ques question question tion that they wished to bind hind the em emS S at nir together not to disrupt it Why t could ad they not DOt help Mlp the mother country with t her colonies he asked by follow following ing i tm example of foreign nations in subsidising the tM steamers which carried carrI carrIr tir r goods goo 1 Such action he be said would not interfere with fiscal rela |