KINO AND EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 819, 17 May 1910, Page 5

KINO AND EMPIRE.

THE UNIFYING FORCE. A COMMON LOYALTYIMPRESSIVE SCENE IN THRONE ROOM. B> Telecraph—Press ABBOciation—Oopyrlelit (Rec. May 17, 0.5 a.m.) London, May 10. The "Daily Graphic" says: "The almost limitless messages arriving from the overseas Dominions is one of tho most striking features of the universal sorrow. It can be readily understood that Governments and important towns should cable, but half the messages daily arriving are from unknown places. "The explanation is that where people of British stock havo built newhomes and created new aspirations of which we know little, the King remains the supreme personality representing common loyalty to a common crown, the one force holding the Empire together." THE DEATH CHAMBER; CROWN AND REGAL INSIGNIA. (Rec. May 16, 10.40 p.m.) London, May 16. At the Mother Queen Alexandra's request, a service was held at 10 o'clock on Sunday night in tho Throne Room of Buckingham Palace, wdiere the body is lying. The Household and many of the Royal servants were present. The Mother Queen knelt at a prie-dieu (praying-desk) between the altar (flanked by bauds of hydrangea) and the head of the coffin, with King George and Queen Mary on either side. Other members of the Royal Family knelt around tho bier. Tho anthem "Lie still, Beloved," was rendered. There will be a similar service to-night. The Royal Standard is draped over tho foot of the coffin, which is of Windsor Oak. The Crown of England and the Insignia of the Garter are upon a purple velvet cushion near the head of the coffin. On a smaller cushion nearer the foot are the Sceptre and Orb. The Standard of the King's Company of Grenadiers, of which a replica will be buried with King Edward, lies on the floor. DRAWING OF GUN-CARRIAGE. BLUEJACKET PARTY INSTEAD OF HORSES. THE ACCIDENT AT LATE QUEEN'S FUNERAL. (Rec. May 17, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 16. The gun-carriage on which tho body is borne will bo drawn to Windsor by a party of bluejackets, thus perpetua"ng the precedent accidentally created at Queen Victoria's funeral, when tho frightened horses refused to move, and tho Naval Guard volunteered to draw the gun-carriage. SIGHT-SEEING PRICES. (Rec. May 17, 0.30 a.m.) London, May 16. There is an extraordinary demand for seats for Friday. Stands are being orccted above areas and other spaces. A thousand guineas is asked for a balcony in St. James Street, and for the best seats 50 guineas each; for an ordinary seat the price is five guineas. Tho use of a shop in London Street, Paddington, accommodating fort}', has been sold for a thousand guineas.. Two shops in Edgeware Road sold at from ,£SOO to i£2so. The weather for Whitsuntide in England is brilliant and dry. Many excursionists have gone to the seaside, but' there are fewer prolonged absences from town, owing to King Edward's funeral. A forco of .30,000 territorial will bo encamped at Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, and elsewhere. The. King's Colonials, including Sir Joseph Ward's son, will camp at Colchester. COMING OF THE PRINCES. GREAT BRITAIN AND PORTUGAL. London, May 15. The Royal yacht Amphitrite, bearing the King of Greece and the Crown Prince (Duke of Sparta) to Brindisi on the way. to the, funeral of King Edward, lost her propeller and was out of control for 32 hours. A ilotilla of destroyers succoured her. The Sultan of Zanzibar (Scyyid AH bin Hamoud) has arrived for tho funeral ceremonies. British noblemen are,offering (he hospitality of their town houses to visiting Royal princqs and envoys. . King George telegraphed to King Manoel of Portugal, recalling King Edward's attitude witli regard to the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, and stating that that attitude would be maintained by him. Later. The yacht Amphitrite was towed to Brindisi. The Royalties aboard (the King and Crown Prince of Greece) are proceeding to London. Numbers of Continental detectives. are arriving in London to assist in protecting the Royal personages. SERVICES AND OBSEQUIES. SUNDAY EVENTS. London, May 15. King George, Queen Mary, the Mother Queen Alexandra, and other Royal personages, will attend a service at Westminster Hall on Tuesday next. Selected prayers will be offered up and the 23rd Psalm will be read. ■ Spohr's anthem, "Blessed Are tho Departed," and the hymn, "O God, Our Help" will bo sung. At a service to be hold in AVestminsler Chapel on Friday, tho day of tho funeral, representatives of all the Free Churches within a radius of fifty miles will be present. To-day (Sunday) the churches and chapels were crowded with worshippers, all in mourning. King George and Queen Alexandra, with Royal visitors, nttended a service in Buckingham Palace chapel. The anthem was Sullivan's "Brother, thou art gone." Colonial Wreaths. Tho authorities are arranging to suspend private evergreen wreaths of specified dimensions on Venetian masts along tho routo of the funeral. Colonials in London hope many of tho chief towns of Australia and New Zealand will send contributions. Tho Victorian (Australian) wreath is made of white flowers, surmounted by mauve orchids. A white ribbon is attached bearing the Victorian arms, and the inscription, "Sincerost sympathy from the tieoDles of Victoria."

Queensland's wreath is a Maltese cross of white flowers, with a crown in the centre, and an inscription in red flowers: "Queensland mourns." Tasmania's wreath is composed of arum and eucharist lilies, with the inscription: "Sympathy from his Majesty's dovoted subjects in Tasmania." Western Australia's is in the 6hape of a shield made of violets, with the lettering in mimosa: "Western Australia mourns." Messages Received, Messages of condolence havo been received (and published) from tho Australasian Medical Congress, tho Tosinanian Racing Club, the Jewish and Mohamcdan communities of Australia, the Mayors of Tamworth and Inglewood, the Shire Councils of Barraba, Traralgon, Maiden, Yarrawonga, Tullaroop, Pouwong, Jeetho, Eosedale, Rodney, and Narracan, the Royal Society of St. George tho Master Plumbers' Association, the Royal Life-saving Society, the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of New South Wales, the Imperial Boy Scouts, tho Ballarat Club, tho Women's Liberal League of New South Wales, tho Catholic Young Men's Society of Victoria, the Sons and Daughters of Temperance of Australia, the Federated Licensed Victuallers of Australia, the inhabitants of Alexandra South (New Zealand), and the council and burgesses of Napier. FUNERAL DAY IN CANADA. (Eec. May 16, 9.55 p.m.) Ottawa, May 16. Services will be held on Friday in every church in Canada. Minute' guns will be fired at 25 points. Troops will be paraded, all games will be suspended, and activities • from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific will cease. All denominations in Toronto join, after services in their own churches, in a public service before Parliament Buildings. The united choirs will there sing the National Anthem. Canadian Empire Day rejoicings have been abandoned. HOSPITAL FUND FOB CAPE TOWN. Cape Town, May 15. The Most Bev. Dr. Carter, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, proposes that collections he taken up at all memorial services, to be devoted to the inauguration in Cape Town of a King Edward Hospital Fund, for the purpose of placing the hospitals in Cape Town on a sound basis (in the same way as the London hospitals arc assisted by the. original King's Hospital Fund).