SORROW IN NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VX, Issue 7101, 25 January 1901, Page 2

SORROW IN NEW ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON.

Wellington, January 24. A special memorial Bervice is to be held at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington, at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, to which it is intended to invite His Excellency the Governor and members of the Ministry, the Mayor, and Councillors, etc.

The Foreign Consuls in Wellington, being desirous of expressing their condolences to His Excellency in connection with the Queen's death, Lord Ranfurly has announced that he will receive the members of the consular corps in a body on Saturday morning. Wellington January 24. His Excellency the Governor yesterday addressed the following cablegram to the Secretary of State for the colonies :—": — " Myself and Ministers and the people of New Zealand desire to convey to the Royal Family, and also to the Imperial Government, our heartfelt sorrow in the loss the Empire haa sustained by the death of our beloved Queen. So noble a woman, so illustrious a Sovereign."

The Governor has received the following cable message for the Secretary of State for the Colonies : — " I am directed by the Prince and Princess of Wales to acknowledge very gratefully your message expressing the sympathy of yourBelf, your Government, and the people of New Zealand." [This refers to the message expressing sympathy that was sent during the Queen's illness. | The Government and departmental buildings and the front of the General Post Office are now draped with feßtoons of black, which will be allowed to remain until after Her Majesty's funeral. Artisans in the Government railway \vorkshops have beeu granted holidays till Monday.