FUNERAL SERVICES ELSEWHERE

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10881, 4 February 1901, Page 9

FUNERAL SERVICES ELSEWHERE

~ . (PJIESi ASSOCIATION' TF.tEt.RAMS.) WELLINGTON. February 3. Thpn? was a complete cessation of busi*wa and labour mi Nuturdav. and funeral •writer! were held in .several churches, including St. Joseph's, where Archbishop Redwood and about forty clergy conducted I. brief but iiiipiTs.sive ceremony. Th* open air proceedings commenced at v a.in. xsith a children's service in the »win Brime. organised by the Sunday pehoot Union. There xvas a large gather'a* ii adults and children, and the proWiinir* were very impressive. Long before tbe hour appointed for the Bnitrd servic:* outside Parliament House, ta» crowd In? aan to gather in the vicinity, Mvl by th,' time the- Governor and staff *irive<i. a vait concourse of j>e.iple had a**mblcd, numbering probably twenty tjoutand. inclusive of over a" thousand and bluejackets from the Mil<lara. A densely packed crowd stood on the b«ii in fn.ot of the buildings and adjoining Greets, and housetop* were black xvith People. () n the Kteps leading to the main M.trahcfl the members of the Ministry, the Jmgti, Consuls, the heads of the Goveru**<u Departments, and the leading citizens ***» Kroupetl. The clergy, choirs, and the *rmon Hand xvere provided xvith specially 'w.rted stand*.