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SPECIAL MEETING

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EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS,

held in the Council Chamber, on Wednesday, the 25th June, 1902.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT (Major-General Sir WILLIAM JULIUS GASCOIGNE, K.C.M.G.). The Honourable the Colonial Secretary, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, C.M.G.).

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the Attorney General, (Sir HENRY Spencer BERKELEY, Kt.).

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the Colonial Treasurer, (ALEXANDER MACDONALD THOMSON). the Harbour Master, (ROBERT MURRAY RUMSEY, R.N.)

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the Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM).

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the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS JOSEPH BADELEY). HO KAL, M.B., C.M.

WEI YUK.

CHARLES STEWART SHARP.

CHARLES WEDDERBURN DICKSON.

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GEORGE WILLIAM FORBES PLAYFAIR.

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ROBERT GORDON SHEWAN.

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His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government addressed the Council.

It was unanimously resolved, in view of the information given by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government with regard to the illness of His Majesty the KING, to abandon for the present all local festivities which were to have been held in the Colony on the occasion of His Majesty's Coronation, to despatch a telegram expressing the sympathy of the community with His Majesty in His illness and their earnest hopes for His speedy recovery, and to attend a Service of Intercession at St. John's Cathedral on the morning of the following day.

The Council then adjourned.

Read and confirmed, this 7th day of July, 1902.

R. F. JOHNSTON, Acting Clerk of Councils.

W. J. GASCOIGNE, Officer Administering the Government.

25-14.7.02.

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