DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 55, 6 March 1901, Page 2

DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

SEE MAJESTY'S LAST HOUES AT OSBORNE-

A PEACEFUL EXt>.

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

LONDON, January 25

It was with a sigh of sometniiig like relief that most of us on Tiiesttay evening heard Ureal Paul solemnly boom forth the uread hews of .Queen Victoria's release. Tears coursed down the people's cheeks as they read the hew lung's message to the Lord Mayor: "My beloved mother is no more," and from every lip one heard the trite verity, "All, well, England will never see Her like again!" But beneutli tliis aud many other signs of grief there was with the more though tful a deep feeling of thankfulness that Her Majesty was spared the infliction of senile decay, and that her subjects will always be able to think of her as-, one summoned from incessant labour to eternal peaceThe Queen's illness was hopeless from the moment of the issue of the doctors' first bulletin. It was, however, just, possible the body might survive the brain and the Eoyal patient lie for months as poor old Sir George Grey did, neither precisely alive noi wholly dead. From this dread fate we prayed intensely Providence would deliver our beloved Sovereign. An eminent brrtin specialist la,st Monday thus diagnosed the Queen's malady. Taking as his text, the phrase in the latest and then rather more hopeful bulletin that "a local obstruction on the brain caused most anxiety," lift said: "A local obstruction on the brain circhlation means in other words a blood clot, in persons over 75 years of age it is a very usual cause of deathThe blood vessels roughen, and an ob« struction is caused very readily. A blood clot is always serious, and in most cases it is dangerous. In a young person with a strong constitution circulation can be restored if the case is treated very carefully. But in an old person, and especially in one who has reached the age of eighty, a cure is rare—only possible, in fact, if the patient has a splendid constitution and a mqre than ordinary amount of strength at the time of the operation.. Of course- Her Majesty's- medical attendants Very properly do not go into details, and with only the information contained in the bulletin one )» not able to form SO accurate a judgment as if he had a knowledge of the complete diagnosis. But, without wishing to be an alarmist. T regret to have to say that the symptoms which have already been made known preclude any idea of an ultimate recovery."