THE CORONATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 14 June 1911, Page 5

THE CORONATION

COLONIAL BOY SCOUTS. London, Jure 33. Lord Kitchener has arranged that Colonial Boy Scouts shall line a portion of the route from the Palace to Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day. They will participate in a rally of twenty thousand Boy Scouts at Windsor on July 4. MEMORIAL FOR CHRISTCHURCH. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, June 13. At the general meeting of tho Coronation celebration committee to-night, it was decided that the memorial should take the form of a homo for incurable consumptives, this course having boon very strongly urged by a committed from the Hospital and Gnaritahle Aid Board. A sum of £192 was subscribed in the room towards • no memorial. — t MONEY WAITING. (Received 14, 9a.m.) London, June 13. Mr Thomas Turner, formerly of Swinden, has bequeathed £SOO to his son, Jonathan Ernest Edward, lastheard of from Auckland. BRITISH EMIGRANTS. (Received 14, 9 a.m.) London, Juno 13. Mr Herbert Easton, at a luncheon to the press at the Royal Hotel, gave an address on emigration. He thanked the Hon. John Burns for sending hundreds of young men and women to Australia under the Unemployed Act. Ho advocated extending tho emigration clause to the whole, of tho United Kingdom. His mission, he said, was not to deplete Britain of its rural population, hut to relieve it of young casual city workers; and it would lie a two-fold gain if Australia could turn them ■to good account. Mr Earp (Now South Wales), Admiral Fremantle, and Captain Collins also spoke. Lord Kitchener wrote . apologising for his absence, and eulogising tho work, of the British Emigration League. FESTIVITIES IN BRITAIN. I OVERSEAS VISITORS FETED. (Received 14, 9.25 a.m.) London, June 13. c ’ix hundred oversea visitors were pi c sent at the League of Empire garden party at Mr W. C. Alexander s residence' at Kensington, including premiers, parliamentarians and agentsg‘i;c":u. . , PROGRESS OF TIMARU. (Per Press Association.) Timaru, June 13. . The Borough Coimcil last night decided to proceed with the erection of ,tho new' municipal buildings adjoining and in keeping w-ith the Public Library. Tho Council also decided to vote up to £SO towards the cost of a hand rotunda in the park (making three in Timaru). As a Coronation memorial this idea originated with the Rugby |Uniqnj)(W , ho;;dgypte, the toy tal gates at special matches on Thursday to the fund. DOUGLAS SETTLEMENT. (Per Press Association ) - Christchurch, June 13. For thirty-four sections in tho Douglas Settlement, Waimate County, 129 applications were received, covering all tho large farms and some of the small lots. TROTTING HORSE STOLEN. (Per Press Association.) Christchurch, Juno 13. The well-known trotter Prince Warheck, owned by Mr. J. C. Paget, has been stolen from Mr. H. Haskett’s farm at Yaldhurst, where he had been turned out. Mr. Haskett saw the horse at 7 p.ni. on Monday, but half an hour later, when he went to bring it in for the night, it was; not to be found. Prince Warhock has a record of 4min 44sec against him, and is valued at about £3OO. It is thought possible that the horse may have boon taken by three Burnham hoys who escaped from the institution on Monday morning.