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Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 20, 24 January 1901, Page 1

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•| * ; I Nation in mourning. I World-wide sorrow. I Military mourning to be worn. I Contingent farewell abandon. '. 1 Government offices were closed to- § day. | The death of the Queen was peacejj fill and painless. | To-day was one of national mournfjing in New Zealand. I The new King will probably be I crowned Edward VII. I The death is announced of Captain j W. L. H. Brown, late of H.M.s. Tau--1 Great sorrow is expressed In .h. I United States at the death of the I Queen. .... 1 Inspector Cullen, in company with | Sergeant Brennan, paid an official. I visit to Waihi yesterday afternoon. I A defendant in a. ease heard at the ! Magistrate's Court at Wellington this week told the Bench that he was the father of twenty-five children! | The Hon. Mr McGowan and his pri!*vate secretary, Mr Matthews, left Waihi this morning for Waitekauri. They thence proceed to the Thames.. ■j A person against whom an affiliation I case was recently brought at Wellingfton at the instance of the Salvation I Army authorities complained that there were "several secret societies in the citj' for the propagation of this sort of thing —the singling out of one man to represent a syndicate." Not many people in Wellington know (says the "Times") that the same pair of keen blue eyes have -watched over the sleeping city from §the vantage of the • Fire watch tower night f after night with few intermissions for Ithe last three-and-twenty years. Old I Peter Johnson, now in his 76th year, lis that man. Hale and hearty he looks 1 to-day in spite of his years and white Ihair, and tough as the timbers, of the fold AVild Duck, in which ship he was I boatswain, and made six voyages heft ween Wellington and London under ithe late Captain Bishop. Captain ißabot was the mate of that same 1-hip. -'....