THE LATE QUEEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 26, 31 January 1901, Page 2

THE LATE QUEEN.

THE ROUTE TO BE TAKEN.

THE COMMERCIAL SPIRIT.

By Telograph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Jan. 29. His Majesty tlio King directs that Saturday bo a day of general mourning. Banks are to be closed and business suspended. The Czarewitch, the Crown Princes of Sweden and Greece, Mohammed Ali, the Khedive’s brother, and Mr Choate, representing America, attend the funeral of this Queen, The funeral starts from Victoria station at 11 o’clock on Saturday. The cortege proceeds to Buckingham Palace, along the road past the Queen’s Palace into the Mall, then past St. James’s Palace along St. James’s street and Piccadilly, and enters Hyde Park by Apsley Gate. The cortege then skirts along the Park Lane end of the Park, emerging at the Marble Arch; thence along Edgewaro Road to the Boundary Road, through Praed street to Paddington station

The procession will occupy two hours.

Seats along the route of the procession aro realising fabulous sums. Some window seats have fetched £420.

Two hundred thousand pounds’ worth of black and silver ribbons have been ordered from the ribbon factories at Stettin.

Tho Peors and Commoners will not participate in the procession, but will view it from stands erected in the gardens of St. James’ Palace. Thousands of exquisite wreaths, crosses, and shields, some costing a hundred pounds, have been forwarded to Windsor.

The London Times says that the personal tributes from leading Australasian statesmen to the Queen’s memory show how Australasians share the national grief. It hopes that the King’s title will recognise the selfgoverning colonios as integral and inseparable portions of the Empire. It hopes also that the Yorks will visit Australia even if the occasion is shorn of much magnificence. The mourning in America is as widespread as if it was a British possession. The American newspapers recall the Queen’s solicitude for the late President Garfield. The police on Sunday morning turned away thirty thousand people from St. Paul’s. Hence it has been arranged to have only one service there on Saturday. That has been fixed for noon. Another service will be held in the Abbey, the south transept of which will be reserved for Peers, while a service will bo held in St. Margaret’s for the Commoners. The authorities have been informed that the King has directed that the draperies for buildings as mourning on Saturday should be purple and not black. Received January 31, 1.16 a.m. London, Jan. 30. All the Agents-Goneral sent wreaths to Windsor, Lord Carrington, on behalf of the Commonwealth, sent a wreath of wattle and aurum lillies. The Chronicle asserts that Lord Hopetoun and Mr Barton snubbed Mr Chamberlain for the suggestion of Lord Jersey as Commonwealth representative at the funeral. A limited number of colonial officers and soldiers are to be included in the funeral procession. Sydney, last night, Mr Chamberlain has cabled to Lord Hopetoun that by the lung’s command a seat has been reserved at St. James’ Chapel for a representative of the Commonwealth. . Lord Carrington has cabled accepting the position of representative. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melbourne, January 30. Mr Seeldon has received a cable from Mr Chamberlain, conveying the King and Royal Family’s warm thanks for his telegram of sympathy.

MOURNING IN NEW ZEALAND.

[By Telegraph—Press Association.]

Wellington, last night. A conference was held at Government House to-day between His Excellency the Governor and representatives of the whole of the clergy of Wellington, at which a form of memorial service to be held in Parliament House grounds on Saturday afternoon was decided upon. The service has been so arranged that the clergy of •every denomination shall take part in it, and the music will bo sung by a combined choir under the conductorship of Mr Robert Parker, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s pro-Catliedral. The service will begin at 3 o’clock. Archbishop Redwood will offer prayer. Rabbi Van Staveren will read the Scriptures. Bishop Wallis will give an address. A platform for the choir and clergy will probably be built out from the front, of the .main entrance to Parliament House, and it is estimated that the grounds and adjacent roadway will accommodate somewhere about 7000 people.

Dunedin, last night. At a meeting of. the City Council it was resolved that the Council of the City of Dunedin records its sense of the great loss the Empire has sustained in the death of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and express heartfelt sympathy with members of the Royal Family in their sad bereavement. It was also resolved to record deep regret at the death of Mr W. Swan, cxMavor, and send a letter of condolence to to his family.