THE CORONATION.
CELEBRATIONS IN NEW ZEALAND.
[Per Press Association.] ( WELLINGTON, May 31. The Cabinet has decided to ask the Education Boards to arrange for the saluting * of the flag by school children on the morning©* Coronation Day. The Government has decided to supply souvenir cards of the Coronation, to all State and private school children throughout the colony^ free of cost SERVICES IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES. The following circular from the Roman Catholic Archbishop and Bishops «f New Zealand haa been issued to the clergy and laity of itiheir charge: — "Dearly Beloved Brethren of the Clergy and Laity, — It is our earnest desire to heartily associate ourselves and our flocks with the sentiments and expressions of thankfulness and joy emanating from the hundreds of millions of loyal and devoted subjects throughout tie world- wide British Empire, /on the auspicious occasion of the .Coronation- of 'his Gracious Majesty King Edward VII. Accordingly, we deem it our duty to remind our respective clergy and faithful that, while they gladly ioin their' fellow-colonists in all the festivities connected witlh this joyous event, they must not forget to fchatiik and' invoke, with tie deepest sense of religion, the Great and Good God, the author of human society, 'by Wihom Kings reign, and lawgivers decree just .things,' in order that He may shower His choicest blessings upon the New Reign, to make it good, long, happy aod prosperous. Wherefore, we enjoin that, m all the cSmrdhes of our t&o---ceses (ia which -weekly service is iheld), «. solemn 'Te Deran' of thanksgiving and invocation 'be sung o» recited, at the (hour found (most suitable for the respective congregations, on Thursday, the 26th of June (Coronation, Day) or on tt!he following Sunday. G/iven at Wellington on this 27th day of May, A.D. 1902.—^FRANCIS REDWOOD, S.M., Archbisliopof Wellington and Metropolitan: JOHN JOSEPH GRIMES, S.M. , Bishop of Christchurch ; MICHAEL VERDON, Bishop of D*raedin; GEORGE !M. LEMBL^N, >Bi»hop of Auckland."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7417, 31 May 1902, Page 5
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320THE CORONATION. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7417, 31 May 1902, Page 5
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