THE CORONATION.

Evening Star, Issue 11609, 20 June 1902, Page 4

THE CORONATION.

GISBORNE BARS TO BE CROWEDQISBOME, June 00. Tfee Gisborne publicans hare decided to close their hotels from 11 *.m- to 4 p.m* •a Coronation Day.

hiilton's programme for Coronation Bay will fee: Coronation service at Bt. Johns OhUtoh, followed by combined religious service in Presbyterian Church, procession, laying foundation stone of Town Hull, volunteers fire Sftluto, fireworks at>7 P-W., Wjd conversazione at Rfak. On fridsy, mw* drop's demonstration in the RinkMr Topi Pollard has arranged a matinee for orphan children, the fanfares of tfe® todustrial School, and the Bengvo ept Inst*tution on Coronation Day. The performance- will begin at 1-30 p,m-, and esteud over an hour and a-half- The .find act cl ‘ Florodora ’ will be given, ftpd in it will be incorporated the Dartos' burlesque, and all the business belonging to the second act oi that opera. ■ . HOKITIKA, June 00, The Westland County Council, who voted £SO towards a permanent memorial ip Hokitika to mark the Coronation, have ajso appropriated £BO to be distributed among the remote district* for local celebrations on Coronation Day. AUCKLAND. June 20. The warships fa port will land 100 marines and sailors to take part in the military display inaugurated by the ToJuntoer* on Coronation Pay. At a mooting of the Onehunga Borough Council a telegram was read from Sir J. GWard stating that he did not. think tha Coronation subsidy could be utilised for the purchase of a stone-crusher- The Government did not contemplate that subsidies should be used ip this way. It was re. solved to drop the gtone-cruaher scheme, and to celebrate the event by entertaining all the children in Omfaupga. Replying to a query by Mr Bollard, M.H.R., as to why divine service was not to be held In the prisons on Coronation Pay, the Acting-Premier wired: “Because we have made arrangements for granting indulgences to prisoners which they will very much prefer to tha programme sug. nested by you on that particular day-” Mr Bollard understands that the indulgences referred to are roast beef and plum pudding, In reply to the Birkenhead Borough Council, Sir J. G- Ward has wired that too Coronation subsidy cannot be used for making roads and paths.