Funeral on Wednesday.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 14, 18 January 1892, Page 3

Funeral on Wednesday.

Princess of Wales .111

Grief of Princess Mary.

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London, January 16. The remains of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale will arrive at Windsor on Tuesday, and the funeral will take place on Wednesday with full military honours. The precedent of the death of the Duke of Albany (fourth son of the Queen) in 188 . is being followed. The order of procession in London has nob yet been decided on. Masonic emblem's have been placed on the coffin.

Demonstrations of sympathy and mourning are universal throughout the Empire. The comments of the _ rench press note the national loyalty displayed. The Princess Victoria, tho deceased's sister, has decorated his room with white flowers.

Princess Mary, who was bo havo been married to the Duke of Clarence, clings to the body, wringing her hands, and calling, " Oh, Eddie, Eddie, speak tome."

Her condition is causing some anxiety, and all efforts of the family to calm her have, so far, proved unavailing. The Princess of Wales is very ill, requiring the services of a physician. His Holiness the Pope sent a message of condolence.

The Miners' Federation rejected a motion that a message of condolence be sent bo Her Majesty. Colonel Cornwallis Wesb suggesbs that the money intended to be spent on the purchase of wedding presents should be devoted as a national dower to the deceased's betrothed.

Two bhousand called ab Marlborough House on Thursday, expressing sympabhy with tho Prince and Princess of Wales.

A number of foreign Princes, including Prince Henry of Prussia with a detachment of the Bluchcr Hussars, and the Grand Duke George (second son of bho Czar), will attend tho funeral.

Memorial sorvices will be held in St. Paul's Cathedral simultaneously wibh tho funeral.

Special prayers of the congregations in churches and chapels will be asked on Sunday for tho Princo and Princess of Wales and the Princess Mary of Took.

The Agents-General of Canada, Australasia, amd Africa have forwarded bo bho Prince and Princess of Wales a message expressing sympathy, also a wreath suitably inscribed to be placed on the coffin. The Court will go into full mourning until the sth February, and into halfmourning from then until the 26bh February. Public mourning will be for three weeks, the army and navy six weeks, and foreign Courta for a fortnight. The Queen has warmly acknowledged thesympathebic messagosfrom tho President of Franco and Foreign Courts. Sho proceeds to Windsor on Tuesday. Mr Gladstone, who ia absent at Riviera, sent to the Princo and Princess of Wales a long telegram expressing sympathy. The shops are full of articles of mourning for the public, especially in tho Wesb End. Public engagements of all kinds havo boen cancelled, and the Prince and Princess of Wales have cancolled theirs for six months. Tho theatres and public buildings will be closed on tho day of tho funeral, which day will be one of national mourning. Tho Princess Mary announces that she is deeply touched at bho tender sympathy expressed. Tho Tenth Hussars, of which the late Duke of Clarence and Avondale was major, will escort bhe body on its removal from Sandringham to Windsor. Her Majesty tho Queon will attend the funeral if permitted by her medical advisers.