THE QUEEN’S HEALTH.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 17, 22 January 1901, Page 2

THE QUEEN’S HEALTH.

CONDITION MORE SERIOUS.

GREATER WEAKNESS EVIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright Received Jan. 21, 6.22 p.m. London, Jan. 21. A bulletin dealing with the Queen’s health was issued at midnight, and intensified the excitement. The official message states that late in the evening the condition of Her Majesty was more serious, and that greater weakness was evident. Another unsatisfactory report contained in the bulletin is that the power of taking nourishment shows signs of diminution. THE CHURCH’S TESTIMONY. “ A NATION’S ANXIETY.” DEEP CONCERN AT CAPETOWN By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright. Received January 21, 7.40 p.m. London, Jan. 21. The Duke of Albany has started for Osborne. A service was held at Whippingham Church on Sunday afternoon in memory of the late Prince Henry of Batten!)urg. The Princesses of Wales, Battenburg, Christian, and Louise were able to quit the Queen’s side and attend the service.

Prebendary Whitworth, preaching at St. Paul’s on Sunday morning, asked the congregation to join in the prayers of Christendom which were ascending from the men and women of every creed and nationality. The Rev. B. R. Wilson, preaching at Westminster Abbey, said no such anxiety as was now expressed throughout the whole length and breadth of the Empire and the whole civilised world was ever manifested at any previous period of the English history. Dr. Parker, the Rev. T. Spurgeon, and many others also paid an eloquent tribute to the good qualities of the Queen.

The churches, chapels, missions, and clubs were unusually thronged. There was general despondency and alarm during the evening, and at night this was intensified when the unofficial announcement was made at 11 o’clock that the Queen was weaker and unable to take nourishment.

The receipt of the news of the Queen’s illness caused a great shock at Capetown. Preaching at the cathedral Dean Clarke said it was the worst news of the past unhappy twelve months. This indeed, he said, was a moment of national crisis. Sir Alfred Milner and staff were present at the cathedral.

London, Jan 20,

It transpires that Her Majesty recently suffered from nervous excitability and occasional attacks of faintness. The chief failure of power took place on Thursday. Princesses Christian and Beatrice and the Dowager Duchess of Saxo-Coburg and Bishop Winchester are now at Osborne. Most profound sympathy has been manifested throughout Europe, America, and Canada, and all the European Sovereigns have made repeated anxious inquiries.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Sir Francis Knollys, came during the afternoon and met the Kaiser,

CONDITION NOT WIHOUT HOPE. A TELEGRAM. .FROM PEINCESS BEATEICE. By Telegraph—Tress Association—Copyright Eeceived Jan. 21, 11 p.m. London, Jan. 21. On Sunday morning Princess Beatrice telegraphed that the Queen’s condition was very grave, but that it was not entirely without hope. The feeling in London and throughout the United Kingdom is one of profound anxiety and suspense. Innumerable telegrams of sympathy and enquiry have been received from all parts of Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, India, and South Africa; and prayers are universal in Anglo-Saxon-dom, and in the mosques and temples of India.

THE GEEATEST QUEEN IN THE WOELD.

A WOMAN’S ELOQUENT PEAYEE.

[Bv Marie Corelli.]

Let us entreat the Ordainer of all events for the Queen —that she may be spared to us even beyond the extreme limits, of ordinary, human life, seeing that we need her so much more than than most kingdoms need their Sovereigns. There is no one so good as she is—so simple, so kind, so thoughtful of. us all. Her little hand holds this great Empire in the gentle grasp of her loving-kindness. She is the bond of union between the Old World and the New. Her spirit is with her brave soldiers on the field of battle; and whenever she can she shows her sympathy with them at home. She evinces a constant, active interest in the work of foreign peoples despite foreign insult—she sends her greetings to the sons and daughters of her loyal colonies with all the tenderness she truly feels ; out to her dusky children of India and Afghanistan her benediction goes, and wherever her name is spoken it is received with veneration and homage. Unique in goodness, unique in power, unique in history, she is, in her great age and continued vigor, the crowning splendour of her splendid reign. No one like her has been the founder of new civilisations, the engrafter of great changes for good which have spread into wide and increasing action; no one like her has been beloved woman, wife, and mother, as well as Monarch of an Empire and frjend of all; no one in her position has ever won so mnch love and so little . enmity. She has experienced all the changes of our changing life; she has known joy and sorrow with us ail; and as we note each fresh grace she does for us, —how unwearyingly and patiently she performs all duties which she thinks way givens

pleasure,—how she never forgets to do a kindness when she can (for when kindnesses are forgotten it is not she who forgets, but those whose place it is to remember) ; how, in spite of formal surroundings and curt officialism, she does somehow manage to get her own loving way sometimes, and make herself more familiarly known to us as now, when she gives a full measure of joy to Ireland—can we say too much of her ? “ God Save the Queen ” is no mere formula; it is something more than the refrain of a national song. It is the prayer of a mighty people; a people of various climes and colors and creeds, all differing in opinion, but all banded together in one great family of union and defence under the one Mother whose love has never failed us, and never wifi fail; —our own VICTORIA—the Greatest Queen in the World !

HOW THE QUEEN WAS ATTACKED.

A RELAPSE AND A RECOVERY.

CROWDS WAITING ALL NIGHT.

FEVERISH ANXIETY FOR NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

Received Jan. 21, 11.20 p.-.u,

London, Jan. 21

On the Wednesday morning the Queen took a drive in her donkey carriage, but in the afternoon dismissed her pair of horses and tandem without taking the customary airing. Her Majesty rallied on Friday night, hut at noon on Saturday she sufforod a relapse, though her strong constitution apparently reasserted itself. During the night the Princoss Victoria and the Princess of Wales arrived at Osborne. The Dowager Lady Ampthill is Lady of the Bedchamber in attendance on the Queen.

An anxious crowd waited throughout Saturday night at Princes Gate, at Osborne, and many of all classes assembled at the Mansion House and Buckingham Palace. The unofficial morning message -to the effect that hopes of recovery were fainter created a painful impression. The Prince of Wales’ journey to London to meet the Kaisor created a gleam of hope in London, the opinion being: expressed that the condition of the Queen could not be so serious.

The Kaiser’s journey to England is interpreted in Paris to mean that the worst may be expected, but the residents of Berlin take a less pessimistic view.

THE KAISER’S RESOLVE.

DEEP FEELING,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

(Delayed in transmission). Received Jan. 22, 1.57 a.m. London, Jan. 21

The Kaisor, on starting for England, remarked : “I am the eldest grandson of my mother unable, through illness, to hasten to the Queen’s bedside.”

The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that the Kaiser’s prompt decision created a profound impression, and is regarded as fresh evidence of intense personal devotion to the Queen. All Germans agree that it is natural, fitting, and right, inasmuch as it is a filial duty, one of the traditions of palace and cottage. In London the crowd greeted the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, and the Kaiser in silence and hushed respect. Eeceived Jan. 22, 2.5 a.m. London, Jan. 21.

There is great reticence at Osborne regarding the character of the relapse. Insomnia is admittedly the great trouble, drowsiness in the day being an ominous sign. Her Majesty was sleeping at six in the evening, but the midnight bulletin deepened public misgivings.

The Times says that no bulletin can convey a precise impression of tho minds of skilled observers on the spot. All our hopes and fears are based on very imperfect knowledge. The Chronicle states that the Eector of Whippingham was' summoned at midnight. The Daily Mail says that silent prayer in a number of churches and chapels was broken by half-stifled sobs. There are crowds in the streets. Old friends are speechless, but make a strong effort to hope for the best.

A MESSAGE FEOM THE COMMONWEALTH.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 22. The Earl of Hopetoun has wired as follows to the Hon. Mr Chamberlain: “ My Ministers desire me to assure you that the people of the Commonwealth participate with their fellow subjects of the United Kingdom in the national anxiety and distress caused by the lamented illness of Her Majesty the Queen.” ANXIETY IN WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, last night. There has been keen anxiety in the city during the day as to the progress of the Queen’s illness. Cable messages were, immediately on arrival,' posted at the.various newspaper offices, and were eagerly scanned by large crowds of people. The Bishop of Wellington has requested that prayers for Her Majesty the Queen be offered at all the ‘churches in the diocese. EXCITEMENT AT SYDNEY. Received Jan. 22, 12.53 a.m. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, last night. , The Governor-General has received no official messages with reference to the condition of the Queen. • The subject is the all-engrossing topic in the city. Knots.of people continuously congregate round the newspaper offices seeking the latest bulletins. Brisbane, Jan. 21. Lord Lamington has telegraphed to the Right Hon. J. -Chamberlain that himself and the Government are deeply concerned at the news of the Queen's illness, and are anxious for further news, 89 earnestly prays for her recoierj.