OFFICIAL NEWS.
The following telegram handed in at Wellington at 7.55 p.m. comes to hand from the Acting-Premier :—
The following official telegram has just been received by His Excellency the Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, under date London, 24th June:—lt is with the
deepest regret that I have to inform you that I have received this morning the following official intimation—The King is suffering from perityphlifcis. His condition on Saturday was so satisfactory that it was hoped that with, care His Majesty [the King would be able to go through the Coronation ceremony, but on Monday evening a recrudescence became manifest, rendering a surgical [operation necessary to-day. The Coronation ceremony is therefore postponed. I shall telegraph at once further intelligence both as to the King's health and as to 1 ha arrangements with regard to festivities.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 147, 26 June 1902, Page 2
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