ENDEARED TO ALL

Northern Advocate, 25 November 1925, Page 5

ENDEARED TO ALL

LATE QUEEN MOTHER

AFFECIONATE TRIBUTES.

IN LORDS AND COMMONS,

(Received 9.H a.m.)

LONDON, November 23. ' The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, in the House of Commons, when moving that an address be presented to the King sympathising, with him in the death of Qupen. Alexandra, said that all would ever remember her with grateful affection for the love she inspired ,in all classes. Looking back on the Queen's life, nothing was more striking than the way in which she had identified herself with. the people and country immediately , she landed. Hers was a personality which impressed everybody. Every member of the House felt himself in the position of a mother's son, and in that spirit sent deep and heartfelt sympathy to the King, who was bearing the sharpest, yet tenderest, loss to which the son of man is heii. Mr Eamsav Mac Donald, in seconding, said: "We have felt for two generations the presence of a. lady of very sweet graciousness, humane consideration and simple tenderness of heart, one revealing the dignity of Royalty and the close kinship of humanity, whether in the glowing blaze near the Throne or the more subdued lights of widowhood. »She won hearts that Spring day in 1863 and kept them to the end." Mr Lloyd George said: "It is 15 years since the Dowager Queen Alexandra reigned as Queen, but she still held the throne of the people's hearts, because she had all the graces and charms that fascinated people. Her whole life marked that charity which thinketh no evil and believeth all things." Mr T. P. O'Connor said that as "father of the House" he hoped to be allowed to add the voice of Ireland, which lovfed Queen Alexandra for her tenderness and sympathy. The motion was agreed to in silence, the members standing. A similar motion was adopted in the House of Lords. —tA. and N.Z.

MASK OF RESPECT.

ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS,

(Received 9.5 .a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day,

The Assembly, yesterday, haying carried a. motion of sympathy with the King on the death of Queen. Alexandra, adjourned for the day as a mark of respect for the late Queen. —-A. ami N.Z. ' '

WESTMINSTER ABBEY-'. BURIAL,

FOUR KINGS IN CORTEGE,

(Received 10.45 a,m.)

LONDON, November 24

At least four King* <vill . attend Queen Alexandra's funeral. Apart from King George, her son, there will be present King Christian" of Denmark, her nephew; King Haaken of Norway, her son-in-law; and King Albert of Belgium. The coffin will be taken from the chancel of Sandringham Church on Thursday afternoon and conveyed on a hand bier to Wolferton station, the King and Queen walking behind, followed by a great procession of tenantry and villagers There will be no ceremony on arrival at Liverpool station. Removal of the casket to the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace will be carried out in the quietest manner possible, the King's desire being to avoid all pomp. During the night the coffin will be watched bv Gentlemen at Arms and Yeomen of the Guards. The procession from St. .Tames' Palace to Westminster Abbey will start at 11 o'clock on Friday morning and will pass through the Mall, Whitehall and Parliament Street. It is proposed that the gun carriage which bore the bodies of Queen Victoria and King Edward shall be used, drawn by 150 bluejackets, but the "Daily Herald" protests against the monstrous suggestion that a woman remembered for her kindliness and generosity should be drawn through the streets on a hideous military contraption, the very symbol of meaness and hate. The four Kings will walk behind the gun carriage. In the Abbey the coffin will be placed at the foot of the chancel steps. The Archbishop of Canterbury will conduct a simple service, assisted by Cannon Carnegie and Precentor Nixon. The service last three quarters of an hour and will include the Oucen's favourite Psalm the Twenty third. The first hymn will be, "Now the Labourer's Task is o'er" and the second Baring Gould's "On the Resurrection Morn." As the mourners leave Chopin's Funeral March will be played to the Abbey, admission to which will be by ticket, but after one o'clock the public will 1 be admitted and will file past the coffin until 0 o'clock, after which it will be taken quietly to Windsor. Mourning is everywhere apparent in London, women largely wearing black. Most of the shop windows were redressed at the week end with black, grey and purple dresses. The theatres are closing on Friday throughout the country.—A. and N.Z.

FESTIVITIES CANCELLED,

INCLUDING STATE BANQUET.

(Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON", November 24. The State banquet and other festivities which were to have been held on December 1 have been caneclled in coil- j squenee of Queen Alexandra's death. — A. and N.Z. I