LAIRD OF MANOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 7

LAIRD OF MANOR.

SCOTLAND MOURNS

Haig Lying In State In Native

Edinburgh.

SIMPLE, RUSTIC INTERMENT. (By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 0.30 a.m.') LONDON, February 5. If. is estimated that 150,000 men and women passed through St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, on Saturday on the occasion of the lying in state of the body of Earl Haig. The lying-in-state will extend over Sunday and throughout Monday. There were unforgettable scen?s at midnight when the body was conveyed through tho streets of liis native City of Edinburgh to St. Giles.

In spite of the late hour and the piercingly cold wind, people of all ages and classes went to Princes Street Station and waited.

Tho frost-covered streets and approaches were impassable when the special train arrived at 12.7 a.m. Eight artillerymen bore the coffin to the guncarriage, while pipers played the "Flowers of the Forest." The procession was headed by a battalion of the Scots Greys on its way to the cathedral. After a service at the cathedral on Tuesday the coflin will be taken by train to St. Boswells, where it will be placed on a farm cart, as is the Scottish custom of the funeral of the laird of the manor, and be escorted by the Bemersyde employees along the five miles of the route to Dryburgh Abbey, where a non-military service will be held. DANE'S APPRECIATION. BIG DONATION TO LEGION. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 5. A Dane, M. F. K. Keilberg, whose wife is English, has sent £10.000 to the British Legion appeal fund in appreciation of the services of Earl Haig and his armies in helping Denmark to recover the Danish portion of Schleswig. DIARY OF THE WAR. SEALED BOOK TILL 1940. LONDON, February "). The "Daily Express" says that Earl Haig, shortly before his death, deposited his diary of the war years with the Trustees" of the British Museum, with the proviso that the seals of the manuscript, which is now in a strong room, must remain unbroken until 1940. The diary is frank and fearless. Its contents are known only to one intimate friend of the writer, outside the family circle. He is a famous racing peer.