The sixth contingent.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 25 January 1901, Page 5

The sixth contingent.

iFUIEYYELL DEMONSTRATION ! ABANDONED. j

! ANNIVERSARY HOLIDAY | I POSTPONED. I ! . R Yesterday afternoon a .special meet-i ing- of the Sixth Contingent Farewell! SDejnonsj ration Committee was hold! iin (he City Council Chambers in ordtu'l |to consider wlial steps should be] it a ken in connection with the depar-1 iinre of the Contingent, in view of the-j faltered circumstances caused by the., I death of the Queen. ■ \ | His Worship the Mayor. Mr I). Gol-| I die, presided. He said that according! Ito the previous day's instructional !* from Colonel Penton. a deraonstrationl lin connection with the farewell was? I impossible. Ilosvevei1, that afternoons pne had received word from Mr Ward, feat Wellington, saying that there was Ino objection to entertaining the |troopers at luncheon. Personally His thought they should abandon | the whole of the arrangements for I festivities, owing to the Queen's death, frnless Ihey could have a proper deI inonstrution they should have noth- | ing; and this was not the proper time. | lie moved accordingly that the whole jof the arrangements for the festivities J be abandoned. | This motion was carried iinaui--1 mously. f His Worship said there was another linatter, that of the day of national J mourning". He read the telegrams received from the Hon. .1. G. Ward on ; the' subject. The Mayor considered I the proper day for national mourning' 'should be the day of vhe Queen's inter- ) incut, I The meeting agreed with this, and | decided that business could be carried I; on as usual till word was received as i to the official day of mourning. \ On the suggestion of the Mayor it \ was also unanimously agreed that it \ was advisable to postpone the eelebrai Hon of Anniversary Day from the j 29th till some future occasion. It was I decided to leave the question of the | date of the holiday open. The date is i to be fixed later on by the Mayor. j Mr L. D. Nathan said he and his confreres had gone round throughout the g;'ity raising funds, and had been most iliberally met by the people. Some iI'SOO had been raised and guaranteed fin this way iv connection with the ■Sixth Contingent. But he considered athat this money so generously conllributed by business people and others lin the city should have been found by |the Corporation; it was the city that Sshould defray the expenses of these limportant functions; the money ishould come out of the rates and not Ifrom shopkeepers and others- who Stormed a comparatively small section Jjof the community. i His Worship reminded those preSsent of the memorial service to be I held in the Baptist Tabernacle on the \ following evening, alter which the | meet ing adjourned. I Our Pukekohe correspondent writes: ■ Preparations were being made yesteriday for a social gathering as a send-off: 8 I'd I* our local members of the Sixth but on receipt of the ■ '"Star" containing news of the death of our beloved Queen the business premises were closed and it was decided to hold a memorial service in the Anglican Church, the Key. l)ob.son officiating. The church was well filled. A large, number of friends of the departing members of the contingent assembled at the railway station this morning to bid them farewell. The men from this locality are Sergt.Major Johns, Sergt. F. Drake, Privates J. Beatty and A; White. Lieut.-Col. White received a telegram last night from Colonel Penton, Commander of the Forces, stating that in Wellington orders had been issued cancelling all arrangements for country volunteers coming to town. He presumed the same, order would apply to Auckland.