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FROM "_The London Messenger_"
CORONATION FESTIVITIES OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
(_From our Special Correspondent_)
PLAZAC,_October_ 14, 1907
As I sat down to a poorly-equipped luncheon-table on board theAustro-Orient liner _Franz Joseph_, I mourned in my heart (and I may sayincidentally in other portions of astrono and Emperor Hotel at TriesteA briefcomparison between the menus of to-day's lunch and yesterday's willafford to the reader a striking object-lesson:_Trieste_ _Steas on toastStewed chicken, with paprikaCold chickenDevilled slices of Westphalian Cold hamham(boiled in wine)Tunny fish, pickled BissRice, burst in creamStewed applesGuava jellySwiss cheeseConsequence: Yesterday I ell and happy, and looked forward to a goodnight's sleep, which came offTo-day I am dull and heavy, alsorestless, and I a-time my liver will have itall its oay
The journey to Ragusa, and thence to Plazac, is writ large with a pigmentof misery on at least one human heartLet a silence fall upon it!Insuch wise only can Justice and Mercy join hands
Plazac is a miserable placeThere is not a decent hotel in itIt wasperhaps on this account that the new King, Rupert, had erected for thealleged convenience of his guests of the Press a series of largetemporary hotels, such as were in evidence at the St Louis ExpositionHere each guest was given a room to himself, somewhat after the nature ofthe cribs in a Rowton houseFroht in it I as of a prisoner of the third classI a and reception rooh uncomfortably plain, adequate for temporary useHappily we shallnot have to endurein the State House; and as the cuisine is under the control ofthat _cordon bleu_, Gaston de Faux Pas, who so long controlled thegastronoht almost say Gastonomic) destinies of the Rois desDiamants in the Place VendoryIndeed, the anticipations for accohtTo our intense astonishh, tobe sure, the cold dishes predo I always find bad forone's liver)Just as ere finishing, the King (no bidden us a heartywelcoetherThis wedid in an excellent (if rather sweet) glass of Cliquot '93King Rupert(nominated) then asked us to resuain recognizing some journalistic friend whom he hadmet early in life in his days of adventureThe men spoken to seemedvastly pleased--with themselves probablyPretty bad forlad I had not previously met him in the samecasual way, as it savedpatronized in that public way by a prospectiveKing who had not (in a Court sense) been bornThe writer, who is byprofession a barrister-at-law, is satisfied at being hientleman and heir to an historic estate in the ancient county of Salop,which can boast a larger population than the Land of the Blue Mountains
EDITORIAL NOTE--We must ask our readers to pardon the report inyesterday's paper sent froularstaff, but asked to be allowed to write the report, as he was a kins Rupert of the Blue Mountains, and would therefore be in aposition to obtain special information and facilities of description"fro the paper, we cabled hisrecall; we cabled also, in case he did not obey, to have his ejectmenteffected forthwith
We have also cabled Mr Mordred Booth, the well-known correspondent, as, to our knowledge, in Plazac for his own purposes, to send us full(and proper) detailsWe take it our readers will prefer a graphicaccount of the cereo of cheap lish nation has chosen hi, and onewhom our own nation loves to honourWe shall not, of course, mentionour abortive correspondent's name, unless compelled thereto by any futureutterance of his
FROM "_The London Messenger_"
THE CORONATION OF KING RUPERT OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS
(_By our Special Correspondent_, _Mordred Booth_)
PLAZAC,_October_ 17, 1907
Plazac does not boast of a cathedral or any church of sufficientdimensions for a coronation ceremony on an adequate scaleIt wastherefore decided by the National Council, with the consent of the King,that it should be held at the old church of St Sava at Vissarion--thefore thither on the warships on the uestsIn St Sava's the religious ceremony would takeplace, after which there would be a banquet in the Castle of VissarionThe guests would then return on the warships to Plazac, where would beheld what is called here the "National Coronation"