At meeting of the Coronation Celebration Committee, held on the 11th inst., His Excellency Sic William Gas-coigue announced that he had obtained the permission of the Secretary of State to open the proposed park at Kowloon, to be called King's Park, and the first sod would be cut by himself on the 27th inst. The Acting Governor has worked hard to get this concession, and has had to plead with the War Office to surrender rights over a portion of the land. The concession is hailed with great satisfaction by all classes of the colonists, who greatly feel the need of a large open space for purposes of recreation. The programme for the Coronation celebration is now complete and it will be a very sufficing one.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.