LATE LORD SALISBURY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7777, 25 August 1903, Page 2

LATE LORD SALISBURY.

SORROW OV THE KINO. GENERAL REGRET. FLATTERING PRESS NOTICES. PKU J'RESS ASSOCIATION. Received 24, 10.45 a.m. LONDON, August 23. The Court Circular publishes the following: — Marienbad, Sunday. — The King has received with profound regret the news of the death of Lord Salisbury. His Majesty deeply deplores the loss of so great a statesman, whose valuable services to the late Queen Victoria, the King, and the country in the highest offices of State, held for so many years, will ever dwell in the memory of his fellow-countrymen, eceived 24, 10.32 a,m. L.ONDON, August 24. A medical statement declares that Lord Salisbury never really recovered from the effects of an attack of nephritis at Whitsuntide, accompanied by alarming symptoms of heart weakness. Messages of condolence have arrived from every quarter, King Edward's being couched in most kindly terms. The others include the Queen, President Loubet, most of the Sovereigns and heads of State, Lord Curzon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and prominent representatives of all parties. Sympathetic references were made in the pulpits of most denominations. Telegrams from the provinces show universal regret, and a general sense of the national loss. The newspapers are all in mourning. All sections show generous appreciation I of his career and great personal gifts. 1 Continental and American papers recognise his transcendent abilities, and those differing from his policy, especially the French, admit his firmness,, moderation, and tact, while all admire his unsalfish service to the State. The Fremdenblatt asserts that in the realisation of his Imperial ideas Lord Salisbury found the pledge of his country's future. , Received 25, 0.53 a.m. LONDON, August 24. The Times and Standard predict that Lord Salisbury's statesmanship, foresight, strength, patience, and self-control wren seen in true historic perspective will be held in ever-increasing honour. The Times and Daily News alike emphasise his capacity for government rather than the origination of ideas nnd the powsr of gauging and controlling new forces and keeping a straight road. The News adds that the people from whom he asked little gave him much. Few men raised by birth to great dignities have been more conspicuously adette in fining them all.

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