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The ceremony of turning on the water into the new Coronation memorial fountain at Sydenham will take placo on Sa*u_da.y, at 9.30 a.m. The fountain is situate at the corner of Colombo rood and Brongh&n. street. A Coronation oak will be planted at the same time in the Sydenham Park.

It has been arranged that a collection shall be made in the Park on Saturday afternoon in aid of the Veterans' Home.

The foundation of the Lyttelton Coronation permanent memorial is to be laid at 2 p.m. to-morrow. The children taking part in the procession on Saturday will be dismissed near the drillshed for the purpose of taking part in the planting of coco-memoi-tion trees there. In the afternoon they will indulge in racing and other sports on the old Recreation Ground, and there will be a distribution of lollies and fruit. Yesterday Mr J. Grubb, tbe Mayor, received a telegram from tha Acting-Premier stating that in-tructions had been given th_t Saturday should be a wfiole holiday at Lyttelton.

At a special meeting of the St. Albans Borough Council last night, it was decided to lay the foundation stone of the new Fire Brigade Station at St. Aibane at 9.30 to-morrow. The Mayoress will perform the ceremony. About forty people attended a public meeting at Kaiapoi last night to consider matters in connection, with, the proposed Coronation bath. The Mayor (Mr Daly) read a telegram from tie Treasury to the effect that the work would haw to be started on Saturday in order to obtain the j subsidy. It was decided that the bath, I which is to be called the King Edward J Coronation Bath, be placed on Darniev square, and a Committee, consisting of the Mayor, Councillors Parnham, and Pearce, and Messrs Isaac Wilson and J. L. Wilson, was appointed to select a site, and the , Mayor will turn the first cod during the I Coronation ceremonies. j A special Coronation service will be held J on Sunday evening in the Weeleyan Church, Sumner, when some hymns comoosed and selected for the occasion will be sung. The Akaroa Borough Council has decided to form a procession to the Domain tomorrow, where oak trees will ba planted ami addresses delivered. It is also suggested to light bonfires on the hills suri roundmg the town at night, and thai the Boating Club and other craft form a torchlight procession. The A. and P. Association's display, to take part in the Coronation procession on Saturday, is being got re;;dy. It will consist of two lorries, with a farmhouse built on them, and with live sheeD and other signs typical of agriculture. The children's entertainment in connection with toe Coronation celebration will take place to-day at 2 p.m., at the Canj terbury Hall. All the arrangements are I ccmp.et*. The programme includes short addresses by the Major, Bishops Julius and Grime., the of the National Anthem by the children, items by the Bright Hours Children, Mr and Mrs Geo . Dean, Miss Olive Lenton, and Miss Johnston, ' A anerry farce will conclude the entertainment Each of the children will be pre-f-ented with a handsome box, which has been specially made, containing sweets as a memento of the occasion. As will be seen by a. not-ification elsewhere, the following streets will be cW-i to vehicle traffic to-mom>w. from 12 to 12 30 p.m. :-<;ashel street, from Drill Shed to Colombo street; Colombo *tre*t from Cashel street to Armagh street; Cathedra! square west side; Armagh street, from Colombo street to Hacrky Park. From 2 p.m. till after the procession ha* Raroadoes street, from South belt to Low* r Hiffh street; Lower High street and High c reel, trom Barbados* rt rwt to CashVl street; C lt W jtreet, from High *lr>H to Oxford terrace; Oxforrl terrace/from Cn«hel street to Hereford street ; H-reford rtrwt" m»ni Oxford terrace to' Colombo street. • Colombo street, from Hereford street, to Market squa.re • Cathedral square, west The membfra of the Orange Institution meet at 9.30 a.m. to-morrow, to attend Divme ServH-e nt the Prhnrrirp M^thrvLi N t Churcn. Camibrid ? e Terrace, when the Rev Bro. i h. Ward will deliver the Coronal tion address. The Caronation service will take P la<~ at the Synagogue to-morrow, at 10.15 ft/. 7XI.

A-h* unveiling by the Mayor of Sumner of the memorial lamp, erected by the people of the borough in commemoration of the Loronation, takes place at 3 p m today. There are two marble tablets on the sides cf the lamp, one which bears an inscription commemorating the Coronation and the other in memoir of Sergeant Rule and Trooper Wiggins, who fell _„ South Africa. On the third side of the lamp will be a drinking fountain.