LOCAL CELEBRATIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14476, 24 June 1911, Page 4

LOCAL CELEBRATIONS.

Notwithstanding the unfortunate i'uin of Thursday, the Coronation celebrations in South Canterbury have been carried through with the succt-i.: ihat was due to an ardent ai. I persistent publio •spirit. The tradesmen's procession in Timaru suffered not A whit by the enforced postpone* ment. Loyal enthusiasm was a« eager on the second day as on the first, and the variety, dimensions, and quality of the procession were more than creditable to the town. If the torchlight procession in the evening Buffered, that was to be expected in view of the rival attraction of the ball, whioh was a success from every point of view, as the children's ball to be held to-night bids fair also to be. At Temuka, Wnimate, and other places Coronation prates and other memorials will indicate the great event to generations yet unborn, and Coronation oakn may keep green in a very literal sense, for a thousand years to Collin, the memory of t'lio first British ruler who knew by flight, as well as by affection, all tho far-spread Dominions of his rrou'i). As King Charles the Second's oak is pointed out in England, Kin# George's on!c may lie pointed out in Goraldine, Waimate, or Tomnkn. when (lie centre of the Empire's strength may have been shifted to southern seas.