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OUR HOME LETTER.
AUCKLAND, June 26
The announcement of the King's serious illness and the postponement of the Coronation, published yesterday morning through the medium of a "Star" extra, came as the greatest shock to everyone in the community, and was especially unexpected ano unwelcome just at this time, on the eve of the new King's Coronation. Not alone our colony, but the whole Empire had just completed arrangements for the great event, when the ominous news was given forth. In the Auckland com-
munity the intelligence created nothing short of consternation. The
workmen engaged on the decorations of buildings in the city dropped their tools for the time being as if their occupation were gone. Then the telephones were set ringing, and from all parts of the city and suburbs enquii-ies came as to whether the news were true, and whether the celebrations next day would be postponed. The news of the postponement w r as received with grave faces everywhere, and expressions of sorrow and regret were heard on every hand. Acting upon a suggestion from the Acting-Premier, the whole of the festivities announced in honour of the event throughout the colony were postponed, excepting in cases where preparations had been made to treat old people and children. In the meantime all other Coronation celebrations stand postponed indefinitely. The Grand Master of the New Zealand Ereemasons is making an appeal to the members of the craft throughout the colony to augment the Aged and Indigent Masons' Fund as a Masonic memorial of the Coronation. The first Wellington Lodge to t consider the matter subscribed £22 in the room at a small meeting, and set up a committee to wait upon absent members. Parliament meets on July 1 for the transaction of business, and members are already moving tcx Wellington for the session, which will be the last of the present Parliament, the triennial elections taking place towards the end of the year. We publish in another column an important speech made by the Acting-Premier, in which Sir Joseph Ward dealt with the position of the colony, and gave a forecast of the business of the coming session.
It was supposed recently that the wreckage reported from Hohoura as being found on the beach in the Far North was from the timber - laden barque King Oscar 11., but laW news pretty well established the- fact that the timber washed up was not from that craft. The timber must have been floating for a considerable time, as it is spoken of as being barnacled."
The s.s. Taviuni, whicli arrived on Saturday, June 14, from Tahiti and Rarotonga, brought news of the total wreck recently in the Paumotu Islands (east of Tahiti) of the Union S.S. Co.'s inter-island steamer Mawhera, which ,was some time ago re-named the Croix dv Sud. The wreck took place on a reef at the island at Apatiki. The officers and crew were landed safely, but there are no further particulars to hand.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1902, Page 3
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