THE LATE QUEEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11564, 30 January 1901, Page 5

THE LATE QUEEN.

'■: "A MILITARY FUNERAL. | THE ORDER FOR MOURNING. 1 WIDESPREAD SORROW IN WIDESPREAD SORROW IN EUROPE. IBy Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright. 3 \ i London, January 25. ] i The Queen's body will be removed 5 to Windsor on February 1, via Lon- ' I don. . J 1 The interment takes place at IFrogmore on the 2nd. I The Queen expressed a wish for a I military funeral, to be interpreted | as a proof of her love for the army •I of which she was technically the I head. 1 Eighty-one minute guns were fired in St. James' Park, and every for-Eighty-one minute guns were fired in St. James' Park, and every forI tress in the kingdom announced the ;■ I Queens death. I The theatres are closed until the I I funeral, and the music halls close on j "' | the clay of the funeral. ■<■ " j 1 The addresses of condolence with ' the Royal Family and congratulations to the King "on his accession, ' 1 will be submitted to both Houses on I I Friday. I All available British warships are I assembling at Spifchead to partici pate in the Queen's funeral. The Duke of Norfolk notifies it is • I expected that in pursuance of the or- | der of the King, made in the Privy : 1 Council yesterday, that all persons I keep mourning from the 28th inst. 1 There will be no lying in state be|,yond the coffin remaining for a few I" days at Osborne in the diningroom. ; I There will be general mourning j I for six weeks at Malta. j I Purcell's music will be cqnspicu- ; Sous in the Queen's burial service. | • | Professor Hubert Herkomer, the | I artist, sketched the Queen lying in | I state. | . I - London, January 2G. | 1 ! The Grand Duke and Duchess of 1 ' '] Serge will represent Russia _at the | ■ | funeral. The French and other : ■ I navies will be represented. | ] The members of the House of ] Lords and Commons will meet the j i coffin at the Victoria Station, and j I march in procession to the Padding- j I ton Station. > j The coffin will be carried on a gun j j carriage. The obsequies in London j I will consist of a military pageant. j | The Kaiser, the Crown Prince, J | Princess Henry of Prussia, Arch- { I duke Francis Ferdinand, the Crown ] ! Princes of Portugal, Greece and Bel- \ I gium, the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg, \ I Aosta, Chartres-Arnuly of Bavaria, \ I the Grand Duke of Hesse, the Crown j I Prince of Denmark and many other j I royalties will attend the funeral. j ] The Kaiser remains in England j J till the end of the ceremonies. ] 1 The warships Hohenzollern and I 1 Kaiser Wilhelm will also remain in j | British waters. j ! British waters. of Germany, in comPrince Henry of Germany, in com- i „ mand of nine German warships, will j I participate in the funeral. j I The spontaneity with which the 1 general public adopted the mourning j • '■dress was phenomenal. \ | The gun carriage which will bear • I the coffin will be drawn by the j I Queen's eight cream-coloured ponies. j The coffin will be covered with a j large white satin gold-fringed pall, | I with the Royal Arms embroidered in j colours on each comer, the Crown j | of England surmounting them. 1 j | 1 THE REMAINS COFFINED. | London, January 26. J | The remains of the Queen are now j | coffined, and after a special religious I 1 service yesterday were taken to a j | Chapel of Rest in the diningroom at 1 I Osborne. | [Osborne. privileged few were ad- I Only a privileged few were ad- I ! mitted to see the coffin, including t j those on the Queen's visiting list, 9 I the mayors of the municipalities in 1 I the vicinity, and officers in uniform. § I THE REMOVAL FROM OS- 1 I BORNE. I 5 London, January 27. | 1 London, January 27. g | The Queen's body will be removed! j from Osborne on Friday between a | I double line of warships firing minute 1 1 guns. It will remain on board the 1 I Victoria and Albert during the night, a | King Edward and the Royalties ac-1 1 companying on Saturday to London. 1

| _ j SERVICES AT ST. PAUL'S. j London, January 25. I Two thousand people attended St. I Paul's at the morning service, and | 5000 at evensong with special meI morial service. I Similar services are held daily. | The annual festival of St, Paul's has 3 been postponed. MOURNING IN EUROPE. | London, January 26. j There is sincere mourning in Ger--1 many, Denmark and Italy. ] The Court of Russia goes into 1 mourning for three months. 1 Belgium is mourning for eight ! weeks, Roumauia for six, Greece and I Bulgaria for four, Bavaria, WurtemI burg, Monte Negro, for three, Italy I two. [two. EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. ] London, January 26. I Tlie Emperor of Austria is sending I from his conservatories wreaths exI clusively of such flowers as are j grown in Great Britain. I , VICTORIA DAY. i VICTORIA DAY. 26. London, January 26. 'The Greater Britain Magazine states that the Canadians are unanimously in favour of retaining May 24 as Victoria Day, and a public holi- j a day. I \ ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN'S \ PASTORAL. I . London, January 26. I Archbishop Vaughan has issued a I pastoral eulogium of Queen Victoria. I Cardinal London, January 26.! Archbishop Vaughan has issued a pastoral eulogitim of Queen Victoria. Cardinal Vaughan explains the ab- I | sence of a Roman Catholic service I for the Queen, because of rites for j | the dead, except for'deceased Catho- j I lies, the Church has none. . I j MOURNING AT THE CAPE, j i London, January 26. I | The Dutch churches at the Capel IThe Dutch churches at the Cape J are draped in black. The Dutch I and British, for the first time for |

I many years, sincerely united in sor- ! § row and mourning.- The burghers at Imany years, sincerely united in sorrow and mourning. The burghers at Pretoria, show respectful sympathy. 1 The 'Australian troops in ; South I Africa under Colonel de Lisle heard j I of the Queen's death on arriving at I Clanwilliam, and were terribly I shocked and grieved. ' 1 The Boer prisoners at Green Point, Inear Capetown, have suspended their I amusements until the Queen is I buried. I ■ —T"" — —~—— " ■ '■ MESSAGE FROM AGENTSGENERAL. ' | s [ London, January 25. J I The Agents-General have written i to the King sympathising with him | lon the death of his august mother. I j : I__ | j THE ARMY'S TIME OF j j MOURNING. I ; London, January 26. ■'■'■'I The army's time of mourning is ex-1 • tended to July 24. | LORD KITCHENER'S ORDER, j j LORD KITCHENERS ORDER, London, January 26. j Lord Kitchener has issued a special j order expressing the great grief of I the army at the death of the Queen. j IRISHMEN AND THE QUEEN. i London, January 24. | The Irish Nationalist newspapers I pay respectful and frank tributes to ' the great personal virtues of the I'Queen. | The Dublin Corporation has I elected Timothy Harrington Lord | Mayor. He opposed his pre- j : decessor's resolution of condolence with the Royal Family, which was. ultimately carried by 30 to 22. | The Cork Corporation unani-| mously condoled with the Royal | Family, but the North Dublin Board I of Guardians refused. 1 DISGRACEFUL SCENES. j London, January 24. | Disgraceful scenes occurred at the 1 Battersea Borough Council, where £ objections were raised to resolutions of condolence with the King. The 1 resolutions were eventually carried, 8 with two dissentients. I TOKENS OF SORROW. 1 London, January 25. | English competitors and several | Australians declined to shoot in the | Two Thousand Guineas pigeon prize | at Monte- Carlo, as a sign of mourn- i ing, though it was considered that 8 Mr. Macintosh, of Australia, would 8 prove the winner. % Van Wyck, the Tammany Mayor of New York, alone refuses to half-1 mast his flag in the dead Queen's I honour. § For miles in Fifth Avenue there! are drooping flags displayed. I A POEM. J London, January 25. 1 Mr. Austin, the poet laureate, has § written a poem, entitled " Victoria." 1 SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. \ London, January 25. | The Sunday-school Union is organ-1 ising memorial services for Febru-1 ary 3, arid suggests that similar! bodies in the colonies should do the I same. I

MOURNING FOR, THE NAVY.

London, January 26. The officers of the British navy go into mourning for six months.