DEATH OF THE KING OF SWEDEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5

DEATH OF THE KING OF SWEDEN.

AN UNCONSCIOUS END. BT TELEGRAPH— PKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Stockholm, December 8. The death is announced of King Oscar of Sweden. (Rec. Dec. 9, 10.7 p.m.) Stockholm, December 9. : King Oscar died quietly, whilo unconscious. The cause of death was the calcification of the cerebral (brain) and cardiac (heart) blood vessels. : Gustaf (Gustavus) tho Fifth has succeeded to the throno. Though the new King, Gustavus, can hardly bu expected (o look on seceded Norway without much of tlia bitterness Hint marked his lato father's last years, comparatively mature ago, and previous experience of the science of government are likely to mako him a discreet pilot in tho -.lolicato situations that occasionally ariso between the fovmorlv united States. 1 During the separation year, liiOS, ho acted aij Regent for_ a considerable period. Born on i mi.! IG, 1858, Gustaviis is now .19 years of age. i In 1881 he married Princess Victoria of Baden, ] and his eldest sou, now Crown Prince is l'rinco Gnstai'iis Adolphus, G.C.8., G.C.V.0., horn on November 11, 1883, who in June, 1905, m&iried Princess Margiirot of Connaught; and a son, the new King's grandson, was born to (hem in 1900. This infant, like his father, carries the' •inmo of the great.Swedish .'King am! soldier of the early seventeenth century. Gustavus Adolphus. It will bo • noted thai tho British Roynl fanitly is connected by marriage with both the reigning Houses in Sweden nnd Norway, tlie Ciown Prince of Sweden having married a daughter of King Edward's brother; while King Haakon of Norway is married to King Edward's third daughter. A treaty gnaranteolii;; the integrity of Norway was recently signed by Prance, , Great Britain, Germany, and Russia; and Sweden thereupon recallcd'hor Ambassador at ChrMania,. becauso ho had no preknowlcdßo of tho treaty. King Gusr.avuH has two other sons, Princes Wilhelm, horn in 18SI, and Eric, born'in 18S9. 1. id King has three' brothers, tho oldest of whom is Prince Oscar Bornadotto, born in 185!), who, renouncing any right oC succession to the throne, married SKss Ebbn Itunck, in 1838. The. new Queen is a grand-daughter of Kaiser William 1,.0f. Germany. Calcification is. the deposition of salts of lime in any tissue, as in a membrane or cartilage in tho formation of bono. Calcification may.occur in old ago or disease without involving the changes leading to tho production: of true bone. ' FLAGS AT HALF-MAST. (BY TELKGIUPH—PRISM ASSOCIATION.) „, , Auckland, December !). Tho Mayor of Auckland (Mr. A. M. Myers), immediately on learning tho news of the death of the King of Sweden, gavo orders for the hoisting of the flag at half-mast on the tower of tho municipal buildings, and at the same time sent, on behalf of the citizens of Auckland, an expression of his sympathy to the Vice-Consul for Sweden (Mr. Sydney Nathan). Mr. Nathan officially notified tho death of His Majesty to the consular body in Auckland, with tho consequonco that all the consulates wore flying their flags at half-mast during tho morning. Mr. Nathan also convoyed tho news, to His Excellency tho Governor. Flags will bo flown at half-mast at tho Town Hall and Municipal Offices in Wellington, to-day.