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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 169, 30 July 1901, Page 2

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PER S.S. VENTTTKA.

ANGLO-COLONIAL NOTES.

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

LONDON, June 28. 'A CORONATION PROCLAMATION

To-day we have had another proclamation, one about the coronation, to wit. What the object of these proclamations is it is hard to say. Certainly not to let the public know the facts proclaimed, for the whole affair -was kept a profound secret, and not even mentioned in the moi-ning papers. The whole traffic from Charing Cross to the city was diverted for some hours, and for nearly the whole of the busiest morning in the week the Strand and Fleet-st were occupied only by a few loafers on the pavement and long lines of policemen almost touching one another. Even in tho neighbourhood of the Bank and the Mansion House foot traffic was entirely stopped for an hour before the procession was due, to the great inconvenience and indignation of merchants and business men who had been given no warning of any kind. It was noon before a. cavalcade composed of the same ingredients as that which proclaimed the King, viz.. Life Guards, trumpeters, Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs, Heralds, pursuivants and Rouge Dragons in cocked hats and crimson and gold tabards passed along on theor way to theKoyal Exchange to repeat the proclamation that had been already read at St. James's Palace in the presence of the King and Queen, and at Temple Bar, and that had already been perused by the citizens in their morning papers.

The proclamation itself, with many references to right trusty and right entirely beloved cousins and councillors intimated in the circuitous language common in such documents: 1. That the coronation will take place in June in Westminster Abbey. 2. That (in accordance with the precedents of the coronation of William TV! and Victoria) the ceremonials in Westminster Hall and the procession will be dispensed with.

3. That a commission has been appointed to sit on 17th July in order to hear the petitions and claims of those subjects who "do claim and axe boond to do and perform divers services at the coronation as in times precedent their ancestors- and those from whom they claim have done and performed at the coronations of our famous progenitors and predecessors, [Kings and Queens of this realm."

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