Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1902. The Coronation.

Manawatu Herald, 24 June 1902, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1902. The Coronation.

On Thursday next in the ancient Westminster Abbey King Edward VII and the Queen go in state to be crowned, just a twelvemonth after his Majesty’s accession to the throne of Great Britain, . M'any strangers to the history and surroundings of this coronation ordeal may wonder why there should have been so long a delay. The needs of time to enable all arrangements to be fittingly made for so .imposing an act by our Sovereign offers at first one clear reason for delay, but the chiefest reason is, the act of, crowning is of so much moment and solemnity, for our King takes oath and otherwise solemnly promises to govern his people according to the Statues of Parliament, and according to the Laws and Customs of the same. No nation has fought so hard to get, and to retain, the liberty of the subject, as Englishmen. It is part of English history that the church has taken earnest part with laymen to secure these rights, as it was the archbishop of Canterbury and the barons who forced King John to grant the charter. It may inferrentially be repeated that the common law of England is an ancient collection of unwritten maxims and customs of British, Saxon, and Danish origin and in 1286 the parliament, then sitting at Merton, were promised by all the earls and barons that “ they would not change the laws of England, which have hitherto been used and approved,” thus King Edward on Thursday will make the same promise previously extorted from King and barons twelve hundred years ago. While the ceremony secures the public statement of the King before the lords and people present at the Abbey, the King makes (a matter of very great importance to the majority of his subjects in the British Isles and so of importance to the colonies), that he will maintain the Laws of God, and the true Protestant religion. That the highest power on earth humbly acknowledges before men his submission to God, and his intention to care for the religion of his subjects is one of serious moment, and if only in this the proceedings at the coronation are lifted far beyond that of a mere pageant arranged for the honour of our Gracious King and Queen. During the ceremony the King and Queen are annointed with the holy oil, recalling the ancient usage recorded in the Old Testament, when Aaron was annointed as high priest. It is a marriage of the King with the church, a union thus of Church and State, and is a submission not of the

King to the Church, as understood formerly, but a submission to the Divine Power, without Whose guidance and help ail persons ate helpless. To estimate the enormous value to the Empire of the act of Coronation the records of the troubles arising in England in clayg gone bye from religious intoleration, and the plotting of churchmen to secure temporal power, as well as the wars of the Roses to secure a relative to the high position, should make every one thankful that those days are now numbered with the past, and that the King to be Crowned is one Who holds his place undisputed by rivals, and who holds his subjects in the silken bonds of love and duty, and to secure this hold willingly makes those solemn assertions and promises which tend to temporal and clerical peace. The day should be (and will be) right royally celebrated, for we have exceedingly much to be thankful for and one and all, from the four quarters of the globe, will join in the earnest prayer of God save our King and Queen.

A sound black cob is for sale cheap. Notice concerning the services at All Saints’ Church on Coronation Day appear in to day’s issue, Master HenneSsy when 'Cleaning his carbine yesterday with brilliante near a lamp, got a nasty burn on his face by the brilliante exploding. Tenders are required by Saturday at 5 p.m. for removing and re-eredting the Rowing Club’s boatshfed. Competitors are notified that entries must be made to the Marshal, at the ; Manawatu Huiuld Office on Thursday morning between to and t 0.30.30 a.m. The trustees under Mr Rhodes’s will desire the holders of colonial scholarships to go into residence in October, 1903. Thirteen hundred artists, including Madama Alhaui and Miss Ada Crossley and three hundred pianists, have volunteered to entertain the recipients of the King’s bounty. The Meteorological Department has warned the Bombay Government to prepare for a severe famine, especially in the province of Gujerat, the northern maritime province of Bombay, The hotelkeepers of Invercargill have jointly decided to close the bars in their houses during the two hours set apart for religious services on Coronation Day. The undertaking is purely voluntary, no public request having been made. A Canadian contingent from South Africa, numbering 600, including a number who took part in the battle with Cronje’s commandoes at Paardeberg, received an immense reception on disembarking at Liverpool. Spain has acknowledged Cuba’s independence. In Sydney the price of fat stock is rising steadily, and on Friday reached the highest price for years. Best crossbred sheep sold at 25s 35s and 425, and cattle up to ;£i6 3s. In the churchyard of Leigh, near Belton, will be found a tombstone bearing the following amazing sentence “ A virtuous woman is 5s to her husband.” The explanation seems to be that space prevented “ a crown ” being cut in full, and the stone mason argued that a crown equals ss.

Bass and Co., Ltd., the well-known brewers, have despatched a thousand barrels of beer for the King’s dinner to the poor. Some of the local managers of the feast object to the distribution of the beer.

Mr Skellen has just entered into occupation of his new house in Liddell street. Mr Liddell had the contract and has carried the work out well, The house has four rooms and a scullery the groundplan measuring, 28 by 26 feet. The walls are ten feet in height and ceiling are of matchlined timber, varnished. Mr Skillen has a very comfortable residence, and from the cost mentioned to us, at a very reasonable out-lay. We are exceedingly glad to find that the settlers at Mutoa have not suffered so much by loss of stock as it was feared they would have. Mr Burr’s loss is only a few yearlings, and Mr Saunders only lost a small animal and his poultry. Mr French whose land was wholly under water saved all his cattle but three weaners, though they had to stand in the water all the time. We noticed at the time that the last flood was one of the dirtiest known, and on some of the farms at Moutoa a large amount of silt has been deposited, in some places over two feet in depth. The point of land occupied 'by Messrs Burr and Smith is nothing but a sea of mud, and before grass will be seen there again the whole area will have to be sown. There was a sharp earthquake shock on Sunday afternoon. In appears strange in the late poll as to unimproved rating, that the result showed less voted for the principal than signed the petition requesting the poll to be taken. Public money has been thrown away for no good at all and those who signed and did not vote ought to pay the costs incurred. The statement of the acting-Minis-ter for Defence to a deputation that all Parliament has voted for cadets was 5s per head, came as rather a surprise to the promoters of the Napier Cadet Corps, says the H-B. Herald. The most recent regulations show that “capitation will be granted at the rate of £1 ..per head or such other amount as may be annually appropriated by Parliament.” Assuming this meant that £1 per head would be allowed, the Napier Cadet Corps incurred liabilities to the extent of £l3O for uniforms, &c., which the capitation on the £1 basis and subscription from the boys and friends would have covered, "but if only 5s capitation is granted it will leave the corps with a big deficit to wipe offi

Mr E. Osborne has a large stock of patriotic ties, red, white and blue, which ought to be in evidence on Thursday! Mr Buckrell wishes the public to know that Saturday next will be his last day in Foxton, and in order to clear every line by closing time on Saturday night, has made some treiilendous reductions in prices. When he says that no reasonable offer will be refused, it is evident that this is the opportunity to get bargains. The Hon. Elihn Root, United States Secretary of War, states that the cost of the war in the Philippines to date is'

The United States Senate, by votes to 34. has agreed to the Panama Canal scheme, if the title is clear arid the Canal is purchasable for forty million dollars the Nicaraguan scheme will be carried out. It is ejected that the House of Representatives will concur ifi the Senate’s decision.

The banking companies in Sydney instead of illuminating their buildings for the Coronation, have decided to make monetary gifts to the hospital. The Bank of New South Wales and the CorilrriCrGial Banking Coiripatty gave /250 each, and donations from other banks bringing the total to £57 0, Similar action will be taken by the Melbourne banks.

Last night some enterprising individual or individuals not intending to go short of luxuries' during the Coronation festivities paid a ctlfprise visit to the slaughter-houses of Messrs Easiest! and Walsh. From Mr Easton’s was abstracted a whole carcase ot mutton and' some ox tongues, and evidently not being satisfied took from Mr Walsh’s ok tortgiies) kidneys and plucks! They took plenty of tithe itl their operations, as they had neatly cut the kidneys oilt of the carcases of mutton hanging in the building; Some extracts front Coronatitiri essays by little schoolboys are given in Cassell’s Saturday Journal. In explanation of the form “ Edward, R. 1.” one boy wrote : “ The King is called Edward because his name is Albert Edward, and R.I- shows he is rearly inglish. Another wrote t “ King Edward ol blsasid memry is giving a dinner to 5 miliyuns just to show the people that he wants them to eat in such a way so as they’ll never forget his cornnation.” “It is the priverlege of the lord mare,’’ writes a boy of ten, “Id wash and'dress the king_ the day he is crowned,, the archbisbarp of canterberry, wut ask the king td sajtj an oath, and when he has done this he will wash the feat of xa poor peepul f and rise up an ointment king.” Says another“ The king will become a chrisitian directly he is crowned and sware to prosecute all who do not belong to the church of England, the archbishop of Canterbury will make him sware.” SANDER ana RON> EUCA.LPYTI EX TRACT. According to reports of a great number of physicians of the higbksl professional Standing, there are offered Eilcalpyli Er tracts which possess ho curative qualities. In protection of th-= world wide fame of Sand-rs and Sons preparation we publish a few abstracts from these reports, which bear fully out that no reliance can bs placed in o’h?t products Dr. W. Id Rush, Oakland F a., writes It is sometim-s difficult to obtain the genuine at tide (Sander and Sons). I employed dilftn-nl other preparations; they had no th-ra-peutic villa- 1 and no effects. In one ci >' the effects Wfcß-plmPar to th.- oil camphor*, the ohjpotion.v'b- action of which s w• I known,” Dr H.H. ib-Vt , Portland, Organ, says—‘‘Since I became acijrajiutel w. ! h this preparation ( "Cind ; r ad S'rau I vi-u no otlKr form of enoaly-’u.' ! llru’< it is by far thr best.” Dr L P, Pm mu s Lynchburg, Vs., writes—" I ifvnr usod any preparation other than Sander ana -'-on a as i found tin other; to be nirno-v nscV s. ’ Dr J. T. Corn oil, Kansas (’i<y, Kanr. a s —“Care has to be c-:rr«ivd no- to Ip supplied with spuri-v.r prepaw.um >. rs done by ray sunp-y druggis .” Dr ■_ >1 Hart, New York, aays—“lt goes wi in t saying that Sander and Sons’ Eucab i) i Extract is the best in the market,” Dr James Reekie, Fairviow, N. M,—“ So wide is with me the range of applications of Sander and Sons Eucalypti Extract that I oarry it with me wherever I go. I find it most useful in diarrhoea, all throat troubled bronchitis, etc.” To Prevent Croup, begin in time. The first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is easily recognised and will never _be forgotten by one who has heard it. The time to act is when the child first becomes hoarse. If Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is freely given, all tendency to croup will soon disappear. Even after the oroupy cough has developed, it will prevent the attack. There i< no danger in, giving _ this rpraedy as it contains nothing injurious. It a - ways cures and cures quickly. W. Hamer, Chemist, sells it. Asthma, Sore throats, Goughs and Colds speedily cured by taking Bock’s Balsam, remarkable for healing cuts and sores, price THE DEAF.—A rich lady, cured of her Deafness and Noises in the Head by Dr Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drams, gave £5,000 to his Institute, so that deaf people unable to procure the ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 699, D. The Nicholson Institute, Longcott, Gunnersbury, London, W. WADE’S WORM FlGS—the Wonderful Worm Worriers, are always effective. II- boxes everywhere*