AUSTRALIAN OBSERVANCES.
Sydney, June 25. The Government will distribute £2000 to the poor through benevolent institutions during the Coronation. The Premier states if that is insufficient the Government will provide what is necessary. The Cabinet will consider the question of releasing a number of prisoners to matk the Coronation. Brisbane, June 25. The Cabinet decided to show clemency to 38 prisoners as a mark io the Coronation. Some will be released and the sentence, of others rednoed*
Received June 25, 9.30 p.m. Sydney, June 25.
The arrangements for the feeding of the poor and the church services will be carried out to-morrow, but the services will be of an intercessory character.
The Premier stated in the Assembly that neither Lord Hopetoun nor the State Governor had received any official news as to the condition of tho King.
Parliament will sit to morrow. Tho Government offices will open. The banks will be closed.
The Queensland and the South Anstralian as well as the local Government have cancelled the holiday and postponed the Coronation festivities, with the exception that in South Australia the children's demonstration will be carried out, and the religious services will take the form of an intercession for the restoration of the King.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 147, 26 June 1902, Page 2
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