SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume VX, Issue 7102, 26 January 1901, Page 2

SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCE.

Auckland, January 25. Mr Dillingham, the United States Consul, received the following telegram from Lord Ranfurly: "I desire to thank you cordially for your very sympathetic telegram on this sad occasion. As one who served on Her Majesty's staff I feel her loss greatly, and it is a comfort to find how truly all classes all over our Empire grieve, and how the world at large give U9 so freely their sympathy. Her reign has, alas, ended, which in history outshines all others Her character and life's work were blameless, and her chief thought was ever for the poor or suffering."

The Rev. A. H. Collins, President of the Baptist Union, has despatched the following telegram to the Hon. J. G. Ward: "On behalf of the Baptist Union, New Zealand, allow me to express our profound sorrow at the death of our beloved Sovereign and to request His Excellency to convey the same to the Royal Household." I The management committee of the [Auckland Cricket Association has decided to postpone all matches under their jurisdiction until February 2nd aB a mark of respect to the late Queen. iv Wellington January 26. -•»'— -fIA. W not. the Mayor, Town

'Olerk, and City Councillors, anm«o W .... officers of H.M.S. Mildura, which will ky then be in port, will attend the mamorial service at St. Paul's proCathedral. The Bishop of Wellington will preach. Archbishop Redwood has sent a telegram to «U the priests in the archdiocese, instating them to drape their respective churches in mourning on Sunday next and «ake reference to the death "of the Quet'i at MaBB on tnat day.