CORONATION OF THE CZAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1406, 16 June 1883, Page 4

CORONATION OF THE CZAR.

Arrangements have been made (says , the '.World') 'for a liberal gratuitous ' distribution of beer during tlio great i popular: festivities in the Kremlin ■at ! Moscow; 30,000 vochas of beer and ' ' 16,000 vochas of hydromel will be i • served out of .cask* placed on railway i cars, in.: buckets/placed at the disposal of the people. Eighty buffets will be ' established in the vast square. Each individual will receive bread and incit in abundance -, 800,000 loaves of bread have beon ordered for tho occasion; The preparations ut Moscow for the coronation are making rapid progress. • . For four nights the great belfry tower of iron was splendidly illuminated by electricity by way of an experiment, No fewer than 4000 Swan incandescent lamps cover the cupola, and 120 electric lamps of Russian invention ; outline the cross. ■ All the principal . churches are also to be illuminated with ordinary lights from foundation to spire, The firework displays are to be conducted' by artillerists and engineers independently of all extraneous aid. New, parquet flooring is being laid down in all the grand, halls of tho Kremlin Palace, under the sharp survoilanco of armed sentries. In fact, a soldier with fixed bayonet'stands over overy group of workmen throughout the Kremlin. The most minute examination ol every hole or cranny •that can be taken advantage of by the Russian disciples of the dynamite policy is being made by the authorities. Some anxiety and doubt are still felt by the ladies in St. Petersburg with legard to being present at the ceremonies, as invitations have as yet been issued only to the other sex. Admission into the Cathedral of the Assumption during the actualceremony of conoration and anointment will be almost .impossible for any foreigners, except thb accredited representatives of foreign : Sovereigns and the heads of foreign missions, as the Cathedral is not capable of holding more than a few hundred persons. The number of invitations for the, principal ceremony will, therefore, be very restricted, It is believed that even the Secretaries and Attaches of Embassies will be excluded. Owing to the coming coronaation of the Czar, tho jewellers of St. Petersburg have a busy time of it setting in order the precious stones which are to adorn the Crown at the approaching ceremony in Moscow. Their value is estimated at over £1,250,000 sterling. The diadem itself, which should fetch Ll2o,oooif placed on the market at Amsterdam, is superb in workmanship, and is embellished with, magnificent diamonds, fifty-four enormous unblemished pearls, and a ruby oil phenominal size.