The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 1, 1902. THE CORONATION

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 404, 1 May 1902, Page 2

The Gisborne Times PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. GISBORNE, MAY 1, 1902. THE CORONATION

Our cablegrams lately indicate that the official programme is gradually being completed. In the coming month the greatest interest will no doubt lip aroused n the great event to take place in June. A writer in the New Zealand Herald puls the subject forcibly and concisely when he states that to the colonial people at large and tu New Zealand in particular this Coronation is of peculiar impel t and deserving of much more thau ordinary recognition. When Victoria was crowned, this fair colony of ours was flotsam amid the waters, was counted p.mong the flagless islands of the Paci. fie, Was I,he home of independent tribes and only known at occasional ports to whalers and adventurers. This will he, therefore, the first Coronation ap which a British Sovereign has claimed the fealty of this Llritain of the iSmijh. And it will be more than that: it will be the first Coronation at which a British Sovereign has formally and by title acknowledged ■ the British overseas. It will mark the changing status "of British citizenship, will denote the acceptance by the jCr'owii, and by tlie constitutional guardians of tiie rights and lijiertjes of file United Kingdom, of that broad and generous conception of nationality which has been the best and most enduring work of the great Victorian era. There is yet much to he dope, •and many changes to be cautiously wrought out, before the old order of .national governance gives place to the completed Imperial organisation in which the Gisbornite and the Londoner ..■will be accorded the same duties and endowed with the same powers. But the place so quietly won by the womanly genius of Victoria is now to be acknowledged before all the world by her spn. By sixty and more years of just and patriotic ruling, she made: herself felt to be tjueen by every one of her colonies, and thus held Per Umpire together through long generations of growth ami change, What the made

the Empire remains and r j ' fses in trust to her heir. No more will British Kings he crowned in the narrower style and dignity of monarclis whose counties are girdled by the Atlantic. King Edward VII. will he more than King of the United Kingdom ; he will he King of the ever-expanding Britain overseas. The Crown has long taken the lead in the national expansion and Imperial organisation of our race. The lormal declaration and acknowledgment of this in the monarchical title will make of the coming Coronation an occasion especially deserving of colonial enthusiasm, and destined to he regarded as long as our History endures as one of the epoch-marking dates. In (iisborne the main celebration of the event will he the opening of the first section of the GisborneKaraka railway. There is every likelihood of complete unanimity on that day, and the function should be one of the most successful public affairs that have ever taken place in Gisborne. In itself the opening of the few lines of railway is not a great matter, but it will give promise of great things, and the opening or it on Coronation Day is a happy thought. A roan mare, lost from Te Aral, is advertised for. Messrs Peckover have several fresh notices in this issue. The sixth of our special reporter’s articles on the East Coast will appear on Thursday next. Mr William Morris notifies that persons trespassing with dog or gun on his property at Waihora will bo prosecuted. Mr A. F. Brinson will open a pork butcher’s shop in Gladstone road, on Saturday next, in the premises lately occupied by Mrs Bryant. Postage on letters to Australia lias now been reduced to one penny for each half-ounce or fraction thereof.

Captain Edwin telegraphed at 11.45 a.m. yesterday “ Gale irom between west and south-west ; glass further fall, but rise after 12 hours from now; tides decrease ; indications rain.” The Union Steam Ship Company inform us that in future the rate of freight from Oauiaru and Tiinaru will be increased if transhipped, but if landed here direct, ex Hawea, the old rate will be charged. At the Police Court yesterday, Hugh Boyle was charged, before Mr Barton, S.M., with stealing 226 3s lOd from James Craig, baker. Sergeant Siddells applied for a remand until Friday at 9 a.m., which was granted. Bail was allowed in 2250, and two sureties of 2225. Yesterday, Mr Baxter, of the Railways DepfirLpieiit, arrived'from South to make'enquiries with regard to the rolling stock, etc., requled for the equipment of the Gisborne to Ormond railway, and as to the requirements of Ihe district in regard to the running of trains. . Up makes an inspection of the line to-day.

It is not wise nowadays to leave horses attached to vehicles unattended, or Court proceedings may ensue. At the Police Court yesterday, Robert Littlo was fined 10s and costs for leaving a vehicle unattended. His explanation was that he was driving a milk-cart, and at Sergeant Siddells’ request called to see him. He jumped of!, and went in to see the Sergeant, and Constable Hoyle found he had not placed the chain on tho wheel. In was tho custom of drivers of milk-carts not to chain the wheels. The Magistrate s#i<J that was no excuse. It was a dangerous practice to leave vehicles unattended,

Miss Ettie Magimiity, who has been engaged to sing at Messrs Massey and yidebottom’s chamber concert next •wepk is one of Wellington’s best knoAvu amateurs-, and is- the lucky possessor of a fine mellow contralto voice of great sweetness and power. She is specially gifted, for besides’ being a successful concert vocalist she lias made a decided name in opera. As the Duchess of Plazatoro in “The GondolieiH ” .md inore. recently as the Queen of the ’ Fairies in “ lolanthe,” the young lady has particularly distinguished herself, indeed so miich so that she was engaged to play the latter part i'n Auckland, and repeated her Wellington success i’n that pity, Miss Magimiity comes of a musical family, for lint))' her sisters are able pianists, and hep brother, John Magimiity, formerly of Napier, holds a high position jn ,S(in Francisco as a pianist and organist. Miss Magimiity' is just as great "a" favorites fjopiajly as she is vocally, and should make'many friends 111 Gisborne, '

.Turanga CJm.rcJi .Spryices Sunday next: Waercnga-a-.hika .11 a,in., Lay Reader ; Makaraka 3 o’clock, Rev. Cliatterton ; Ormond 7, Lay Reader.