THE CORONATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 869, 23 July 1910, Page 3

THE CORONATION.

London, July 21. A proclamation has been gazetted announcing that the Coronation will take place in June next.

It will be read at St. James’s Palace, Charing Cross, Temple Bar, and the Royal Exchange today by the Ceremonial King of Arms and the Heralds, similarly to the Accession procedure.

THE ACCESSION OATH. London, July 21. Mr Asquith has promised the Scottish members of the House of Commons who protested against the Coronation Oath that he will give careful attention to the Declaration. A committee of Nonconformist members of the House of Commons has resolved that it will not support the Declaration unless the words “as the law established” are deleted. Melbourne, July 21. In the House of Representatives Mr H, Mahon (Coolgardie) moved that an address be presented to the King protesting against the retention of the present Accession Declaration, and pointing out that It is objectionable to his Majesty’s Roman Catholic subjects as it declares the central and most sacred truths of their religion to be false and Idolatrous, and, secondly as it implies that a dispensation for taking a false oath might be applied for by the Sovereign and granted him by the Pope. The motion asks that the Declaration be amended by the elimination of all words reflecting on the religious belief professed by over twelve million of his Majesty’s loyal subjects. Mr Fisher and others members supported the alteration of the Accession Declaration.

Sir John Quick urged that the address to the King should be so amended as to endorse the modified form of the Oath suggested by Mr Asquith in the Bill introduced in the House of Commons.

Mr Mahou accepted Sir John Quick’s suggestion, which was embodied in bis motion, and the address in that tom was agreed to-

In the House of Commons on June 28th, Mr Asquith introduced the new Accession Declaration Bill. The new Accession Oath reads as follows;

“I solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful member of the Protestant Reformed Church, by. law established in England, and will, according to the true intent of the enactment securing the Protestant succession, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my power, according to law.”