London via Bombay, 19th June.
The Straits Settlement Coronation banquet was a brilliant representa-
officials and numerous Chinese, Sir tiza gathering of many Colonial Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.ILG., presiding, dilated on the prosperity of the Galoc (? Malay) States, due to capable and devoted Administrators, and to the enterprise of the mercantile community, whereof the Chinese residents were the backbone. The Sultan of Perak said that the three qualities of British rule were strength, justice, and mercy, and he prayed that the Malay States would ever remain under British rule—
Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.