COMMEMORATION WEEK.

Evening Star, Issue 10340, 14 June 1897, Page 2

COMMEMORATION WEEK.

COLONIAL TROOPS. .... < [Pbb Press Association—Copyrioht.] LONDON, June 13. The New Zealand detachments and the New South Wales Permanent Artillery, Engineers, and Submarine Miners have arrived. .. THE GIFT OF AUSTRALIAN MEAT. LONDON, June 13. The first portion of the mutton and beef presented by Australian pastoralists towards the London poor dinners has arrived.. Ireland and Scotland, through the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh respectively, have each received 4,000 circasses; London, Manchester, and Liverpool each receive 1,500; Birmingham, Sheffield, and Newcastle i,OOO each; Cardiff, Bristol, Nottingham, Bradford, Hull, and Salford 500; Derby and Norwich 250. The redistribution of the meat has been left to the absolute discretion of the respective mayors. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. We have decided to initiate a SHILLING SUBSCRIPTION in aid of the Children's Ward Fund, and will take charge of all donations (limited to that sum), whether in cash, postal notes, or stamps. Additional donations to our shilling Subscription: A.C., Baby Ronald. In order that our employes may partly share in the holiday on Jubilee Day the Evening Stab will go to press at noon, and the delivery will be facilitated, so that the paper may be in the hands of our subscribers in time for perusal before they go out to witness the illuminations. Additional contributions to the obildren's ward fund:—Bing, Harris, and Co., second donation of 25 guineas; Sargood, Son, and fiwen, £25; Geo. Bell, £5 sa; Evkni.no Star Company, Limited, £2O; Mrs Pim, Kwong Sing Wing, Hip Fong Tie, Wong King Yip, and D. J. Bews, £2 2s each. The word "diamond" has quite dropped out of use amongst the Court officials when speaking or writing of the June festivities (says an English journal). June 22 is frankly referred to by some of the higher officials, in their correspondence with the general public and with one another, as "Jubilee Day," a colloquialism that is not without its elements of oonfusion. With greater precision, the week beginning on Acoeesion Day is now known as " Commemoration Week" ; but there is at present no tendency to crystallise the phrase'*' Thanksgiving Day " around Sunday, June 20. The formal literature that will presently be pre(pared will be beaded " The Commemoration of Her Majesty's Reign," and the programme for Tuesday will be described as " The Ceremonial to be Observed During the Royal Procession," or words to that effect. No printed "ceremonial" will be issued for Thanksgiving Day. - The following hours will be observed at the Dunedin telegraph office during the Jubilee holidays:— On Tuesday, 22nd inst., 9to 10 a.m. and 7to 8 p.m. ;on Monday, 21st, and Wednesday, 2.3rd, 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 7 to 8 p.m. The telephone exchange will be open continuously day and night. Messrs Bing, Harris, and Co., having been advised by the gentleman to whom the work of illumination next week had been entrusted that it will be impossible to deliver the lamps ordered, have decided to abandon their proposed outside illuminations, and in lieu thereof will give an additional donation of twenty-five guineas to the children's ward fund, making their total subscription to that object fifty guineas. The directors of the New Zealand Cooperative and Agency Company have decided to give away fifty sheep to the poor of the City as a record reign donation. An invitation is given to all ex-navy men, as well as ex-members of other branches of the services, to take part in the procession on June 22. Those willing to assist will parade at the Garrison., Hall to-morrow evening, Our Broad Bay correspondent writes: " At the first meeting of the Portobello Roads Improvement Committee—a committee formed for the purpose of assisting the Road Board to obtain additional funds for the improvement of the Beach road—held on Saturday night, it was decided to erect a bonfire on Mount Charles, the highest point on the Peninsula, the work being undertaken by volunteers, with the assist' anco of the Road Board. Another bonfire will be erected on the Harbor Cone. This will also be done principally hy volunteers, assisted by the ohildren of Portobello, I Hooper Inlet, and Broad Bay Schools. Both are splendid positions, and if the weather i 3 suitable will be seen along the coast from the Nugget* to Moeraki. A number of other fires will be made on the high situations of the Peninsula.—-The Portobello School Committee have decided to give all their school ohildren a free pass bylfche s.s. Onslow to Dunedin to see the illuminations." Mr B. Hallenstein,' Consul, for Germany, and Mr W. G. Neill, United States Consular Agent, have accepted'invitations to take part in the procession. | Mr George M. Marshall, of Princes street, sends us samples of powders for inexpensive j and effective lighting for Jubilee illuminations. The material, if burned on a piece of sheet-iron standing on two or three bricks, will give a brilliant colored display, and there ib not the slightest risk of fire. The district order for volunteers, giving particulars of the parades in eelebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, appears in this issue.

" Hillside " writes to us:—" May I suggest to those residents on the hillside, whether within our City or the suburbs, that a very inexpensive way of producing a most effective pyrotechnic display on the evening of the 22nd would be for dwellers on the summit and town side of the hills to simultaneously, say, at seven o'clock (which will not interfere with town sightseeing), light a few colored fireß, which some, no doubt, would supplement with rockets, etc. The simultaneous display of nothing beyond a few colored fires all round our hillsides would produce a most vivid and gorgeous effect, to which the natural conformation of Dunedin peculiarly lends itself. Of course the essence of the thing is that the display should be simultaneous."