QUEEN VICTORIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12425, 14 February 1901, Page 5

QUEEN VICTORIA.

A NATIONAL MONUMENT. A SUGGESTION BY THE LORD MAYOR. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 12. The Lord Mayor of London has addressed a communication to the King, suggesting the formation of a small committee, consisting of members of the present and late Governments, to consider what, form the proposed national monument to the late Queen should take. He suggests that the committee should ,nominate a representative committee for maturing a scheme.

A public meeting was held in the Kaiapoi Council. Chamber on Tuesday evening, to consider the question of erecting a Queen Victoria memorial in Kaiapoi. Mr Feidwick (Mayor) presided. The committee appointed to obtain subscriptions from thn public handed in their lists to date, and it was found that £B2 Is 6d had been either donated or promised. Mr. J. Sims, on behalf of the committee appointed to enquire as to the cost of a suitable monument, laid on the table a number of -drawings of statues, and> a statement of the cost of each. The design selected was of a statue to cost £75, and representing a female figure on a pedestal. AVhen completed, the memorial will cost about £125, and it is considered that no difficulty will exist in collecting the full amount. Several sites were then mentioned as suitable for the erection, of the monument, and finally Damley Square -was chosen. Mr J. Sims was requested to secure the monument chosen at once. It will be erected in the centre of the Square, and ornamental flower beds will be laid out surrounding it. At a meeting of the Halswcll School Committee, the following resolution was passed —“ That this committee has received with feelings of deepest regret the intelligence of the death of our beloved Sovereign her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and records its sympathy with his Majesty the King and members of the Royal Family at the great loss thus sustained by them and the Empire.” At the meeting of the Charitable Aid Board yesterday, before -ordinary business was commenced, the Chairman proposed—- “ That the Board should place on record its respectful assurances of sympathy with his Majesty the King and the Royal Family, in the loss they and the whole of the Empire have sustained in the lamented death of the great and good Queen Victoria.” The resolution was passed by the members standing.

At the meeting of the Wonlston Borough Council, held on Thursday last, the Mayor reminded the Council that since their last, meeting the Empire had mourned the death of her Majesty- the Queen, and he thought it right and appropriate for the Council a t that meeting to pass the following motion—- “ That this Council places on record its sense of the loss the Empire has sustained in the death of our* beloved Queen, who was honoured and revered byi Her subjects in all parts of her dominions; and would extend to the Royal Family their sincere and respectful sympathy in their deep sorrow.” The resolution was carried unanimously, and a copy was ordered to be forwarded to the Pi’emier.

The Avon. Road Board, at- its meeting on Monday, adopted the following resolution—- “ That this Board desires to express and place on record its sincere sorrow at the death -of our beloved and revered Sovereign, her late Majesty Queen Victoria.” At the Canterbury- Agricultural and Pastoral Association Committee meeting yesterday afternoon-, the following motion-regard-ing the death of her Majesty the Queen was passed, the members standing The members of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association desire to place on record their sincere sorrow at the decease of her late Majesty Queen Victoria; their deep sense of the sympathy she ever manifested in the welfare of all her subjects, and of the many blessings which her long and glorious reign had conferred' upon, the Empire., They wish, at the same time, to record an expression of their loyalty and devotion to his Majesty King Edward VII. on his accession to the throne, and their hope that lie may long be spared to guide the destinies of the British Empire.”