25 YEARS AGO
Funeral of Mikado
(From " The Dominion,” September 16, IUIX.)
The funeral ceremonies of the late Mikado have begun, and are being witnessed by enormous crowds. The service culminated at midnight with the Emperor’s lamentation, the Empress and the Imperial Family also doing homage to the dead. A gun announced the supreme moment to the nation and all work stopped for three Later the coffin was entrained for Kioto. General Count Nogi, one of the heroes of the war with Russia, who occupied a modest home at Akasaki, cut his throat with it short sword and his wife similarly stabbed herself in the stomach at the moment the gun announced the departure of the funeral procession from the palace. The double suicide caused everywhere the deepest impression and the prpfoundest grief.
The Wur OHicc will probably interdict the use of monoplanes pending investigation with the object of securing greater safety.
The Auckland yacht Matangi, which has been purchased by Mr. Henry E. White, of Wellington. arrived in port yesterday morning after a somewhat eventful trip down the coast.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 298, 13 September 1937, Page 8
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