CORONATION OF THE CZAR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2057, 29 May 1896, Page 2

CORONATION OF THE CZAR.

< >n Tfi'pday ■ lir C_iir w« or i.ic'aii.i nd .• st, Petersburg with gre<t ceremony. The !)■ njiuer 'Empress Datrmar, who was present, at. .h<* of her son, was much iifFdel. The Empress was dressed in silver brocade, aft'f tho national Hussian tishion. Ihe ("z=ir rpcited tbe creel, placed the crown on his own had, ascended the throne and assumed th* 1 sceptre. He then crowned the Empress, who knelt before him, «nd gontly rair.e I and kissed her. The Emperor was afterwards anointed ami took »._■■> Snerament The Kovallies returripd to the Palace amid continn >us cheers. A salute of 101 mm* was fi-ed. All the bells of Moscow were rin_»m<_. The Kremlin was illuminated at night The Kaiser congratulated his brother monarch. The Czar has announced thnt bo will remit the arrears of taxes in European b'ussia and Poland, reduce the land tax by one halt, reduce penal sentences by one third , and life sentences to twenty years. Siberian exiles after twelve years will be released, without the restoration of civil rights, but political exiles, who have led blameless lives, will h«ve their rights restored. Paris was decorated and brilliantly illuminated in honour of tho Czar's coronation. At _ performance m tbe ' 'pera House the coatß of arms of the two countries were entwined. The fete of 1893, when the officer, of the Russian fleet visited Paris, was repeated, and the soldiers of the French army were supplied with lree wine. ——~