"COURT MOURNING IN NEW ZEALAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 18 December 1909, Page 3

"COURT MOURNING IN NEW ZEALAND.

A FEaiJ)IN&.PROTEBT."..--.;..-'- --.-=.■■ . FEILDING/ Saturday. .", The flag flying, at half-mast on'thePqst • -'•-. • Office lor King Leopold's death aroused a protest here. The following telegram--V was sent txv-the Piemier by a number of VFeilding bitsiness '.: men: „ "We protest against" Post Office flying a flagvf or Leopold. Can .t-oomei.doraJ'Vv A 7" (Leopold IL, King ofSthe .Belgians, waa tho boo. of Kingliepppld L i; npdh V whose -death; which occurred in 1865> ,he suceeeiedd to ihe" throne. 'He was : bora in. Brussels in ;1835,Vaad marriM V in 1863' the AteKdnohess: VM&Tie •'<&. Austria, '-rwho" died in 1902, hy whom ho haa three daughters; " The. eldest, : .Princess Louise, y married ' , in. ' 1875 j V Princey Philip of VSaxe- Gobwg-Gotha,V - but the ;' oharriage wa£'. aniiiUed . in;January, 1006. The .^second; Princess Stephanie, -. wido wV of -' the late Crown-. ; . Prince Rudolf <rf V Austria, .married - ;.-:'. Const / Loiyay 'iii 1899. y , The^ y. third. aanghter is >Princess Clementine, Boththe elder daughteisV'mourxea- > .the; - King's Vdispleasurej : .PjrticeM Stepbahie V; by her 'marnagevwith.^iint ; Lonyay, V : Vsnfcthe breach7 was .'; rievM^^ealed;:. Leopold was.Va frequeniVvisif or ' ■ >tb other "cpimtr-es,7ani as^-Duke. '-<>?; J VBrabant he ' took .^prominent part inV -?'V«OTeral important Vtoeussions in Jthe- 5 Ay Senate.' lt was- in cdhhectionV with_-

'A- the;- governmeit^of . the' Congo ;.|lVee A Stat-e that he . was - mdaby prominently v In the pu%lie' : view in "Great ßritain in 1 •■■ ineeeht years. . yHis 'Majesty took * great interest in the developm'ent.Vof V theTPree State, and was 7 head of the; •..,. International Association which was. V formed to dpenvup' the Congo river and itMitribntarfes. The responsihility ; Vfor. .the'fllleged.atbreities which hay? Aronght -the Belgian, rule in the Congo .nto_.general disrepute, has, rightly ot wrongly, been to. .Leopold. tl;, and yat: the present V momenta: : movement is actively.; progressing., in Europe' to forced international inter ; : f erence. fi 'i- As the lateyKing has no sons, and daughters, are: excluded from .] '.' the succession hy .the Belgian-. Constitution, -ithe heir to v the throne yy 'ia. 7* Prinee Albert,, second eon ot thie late: y Count' of Flandera, brother} of.l leor- - paid H. He wastdrn in 1875, and-: married in 1900 the Duchess. '_Elfca* r fceth. of 'Prince Albert fias' two ' sons, the . eldest being. Prince lieopold (born 1901), and a. daughter.)