EDWARD VII. AT REST

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1910, Page 5

EDWARD VII. AT REST

THE FUNERAL SOLEEVIN3T3ES. THE RELIGIOUS OBSEQUIES. [pep. PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, May 21. At St. George’s Chapel nine tiers of seats on cither side were covered with violet cloth. The sloping gangway from the nave to the choir was railed with standards and violet ropes. The military Knights of Windsor were ranged on either side of the gangway, with members of the Royal Household on the right of the altar. Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the nave with partizans reversed. The Gentlemen-at-Arms were in the choir with- jtialherds reversed. The Royal cupied the Royal Closet overlooking the altar. While the eleven hundred mourners and guests were assembling in the choir and nave, Sir Walter Parratt at the organ played Schubert’s “March Solenmelle.” The coffin was received at the west door by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of Winchester, the Dean of Windsor, Canons and Minor Canons, lay clerks and choristers of the Chapel as the procession was moving up the nave, the choir chanting the opening sentences of the burial service. Gold sticks with white staves on either side of the procession conducted it into the choir, the Earl Marshal, Lord Steward and Lord Chamberlain, immediately preceding the coffin. King George’s wreath was deposited on the coffin, and was a cross of white; Queen Alexandra’s was of orchids and Queen Mary’s was a wreath of white mav.

• As the coffin rested at the end of the nave, King George standing at the head, Psalm 90 was chanted. The hymns were “Thy Will be Done” and “Now the Labourer’s Task is O’er,” and the anthems Goss’s “I Heard a Voice,” and Handel’s “His Body is Buried in Peace.”

The Bishop of Winchester read the Lesson, and the Dean of Windsor the sentence -“I heard a voice from Heaven.” The Archbishop of Canterbury road', the prayers and pronounced the bite Kin" Edward’s styles. The Archbishop pronounced the Benediction, and Sir Walter Pnvratt played the organ solo, Beethoven’s “Funeral March” in A flat minor. As the sentence “Dust to dust” was pronounced, the coffin was lowered out of sight into the vault, and afterwards wheeled to its final resting place upon a massive stone table directly beneath the Duke of Clarence’s tomb.

INDIAN LOYALTY.

PEACE, LOVE AND LOYALTY. CALCUTTA, May 22. An unprecedentedly united demon stratum of mourning and loyalty marked the funeral ceremonies on Friday. Three hundred thousand Hindoos,, including members of the Aristocracy i’,;td the entire middle class of all shades, also Surendrath Bunerjie, Chupenranath. Bose and the editor of the Ainrita Busear Putrica, march fed in a procession for two miles bare footed and dressed in white from Sangita Hamaj to the Maidan. At the head of the procession was carried a life-sffie portrait of the 1 late King, wreathed in white lotus flowers and lilies, surmounted by embroidered umbrella—-India’s, emblem of loyalty. The-Maharajah of Durbhanga delivered a fervent speech, urging that King Edward’s death was a signal for the Indian people to compose their differences and live lives of peace, love ;ind loyalty.