PROGRAMME FOR SATURDAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11565, 31 January 1901, Page 5

PROGRAMME FOR SATURDAY

I ; SOLEMN DEMONSTRATION IN ■ i AUCKLAND. i I PROCESSION TO THE QUEEN'S ; ■■■;. STATUE. | CITIZENS TO CARRY WREATHS. The . proposal to form a procession to the Queen's statue on Saturday, mentioned in yesterday's Herald, has been actively taken up, and the arrangements for the solemn demonstration are now well under way. The Mayor (Mr. D. Goldie) gave Messrs. W. J. W. Philson and W. J. Speight authority to form a committee, and the committee having been duly formed held their firstmeeting yesterday, and made arrangements preliminary to arriving at a general scheme for the day's proceedings. The exact arrangements will not be made till to-day, and the programme will be duly advertised, but so far as arranged the proceedings will be as follows : — The citizens will, be invited by the Mayor to assemble at noon on Saturdav, at the foot of Queen-street,, near the wharf, and proceed on foot to the Queen's statue in the Albert Park, by way of Queen-street, Wel-lesley-street, and Princes-street, entering the park at the gate opposite the new police barracks, and proceeding to the statue, where such members of the procession as have brought wreaths will deposit their tributes at the foot of the statue, the procession passing on out at the north gate in Princes-street. ■" The procession will be headed by the whole of the volunteers of the Auckland garrison, with band, Lieutenant-Colonel j White, officer in command of the district, f having received authority from Colonel j Pole-Penton, Commandant of the Forces, for the volunteers to parade. Deepest mourning will be observed by the volun- j teers, and the band will play dead marches only. The volunteers will be ordered to assemble at the Drill Hall at half-past eleven on Saturday morning, and will be j marched from there to the foot of Queen- j street, where citizens are expected to as- I semble at noon. • | Following the volunteers will come the Mayors and councillors of the city and suburbs, Parliamentary representatives, Consuls of foreign nations, then the Royal Standard- draped, borne and escorted by j veterans of Her late Majesty's service by land and sea. After this will come the j general public eight deep. f It is intended to ask the New Zealand I Natives' Association to provide 100 stewards | with white wands to conduct the procession. ! The committee express the hope, which | we heartily endorse, that citizens of all sec- § tions and creeds, will turn out in their thou- | sands, and in the general procession there i will be no bar with regard to sex, both sexes | being invited to take part. | The following committee have charge of | the arrangements: Councillors Kidd, Stick-1 bury, Baume, Farrell, and Graves Aickin, | Lieutenant-Colonel White and Messrs. W. | W. Philson, T. H. White, and W. J. g Speight. • Mr. Speight will be glad if some g representative member of the veterans will | call on him in relation to the matter. jjj UNITED CHURCH SERVICE. j A meeting of the clergy was held yester-1 day afternoon at the Diocesan office, when it | was decided to hold a united mourning com-1 memoration service in the Albert Park on I Saturday afternoon at three p.m. The scr- i vice will probably be conducted at the new g bandstand erected in the park, and will con-1 sist of an address and service, under the 1 conduct of Canon Nelson. A number of | hymns will be sting by the united Anglican J choirs and the people; copies of the same | will be printed \ and distributed on the J ground. Short addresses of about eight « minutes' duration will also be delivered by the Revs. W. E. Gillam, W. Gray Dixon, H. R. Dewsbury, Pastor Clark, and Rabbi Goldstein. No collection will be made, as any incidental expense will be defrayed by some of the gentlemen interested. j ;; [l!Y TELEGRAM. OWN CORRESI'ONDENT.] ", Paeroa, Wednesday. Arrangements are being made to hold a united church service on Saturday afternoon j next, in connection with the death of the j Queen. All the churches are to take part, j and if fine the memorial service will be held j in the open air; if wet the service is to take place in the Criterion Theatre. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS association-.] ; Wellington, Wednesday. A conference was held at the Government House to-day, between His Excellency and j representatives of the whole of the clergy of J Wellington, at which a form of memorial j service to be held in Parliament House grounds, on Saturday afternoon, was de-1 cided upon. The service has been so arranged that clergy of every denomination shall take part in it, and music will be sung by a combined choir, under the conductorship of Mr. Robert Parker, organist and i choirmaster of St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral. I The service will begin at three o'clock. Archbishop Redwood will offer a prayer. Rabbi Von Stavern will read the Scripture, and Bishop Wallis will give an address. A platform for choir and clergy will probably be built out from the front of the main entrance to Parliament House, and it is estimated that the grounds and adjacent road- I way will accommodate somewhere about 7000 people. — INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RAILWAY , DEPARTMENT. We repeat the instructions issued on Fri- | day last by the Minister for Railways : — On the day of the funeral no railway business of any kind whatever is to be transacted in any part of the colony between j the hours of half-past eleven and twelve j noon, and every member of the railway staff, j whether permanent or casual, is to cease Work for the half-hour specified, and to j stand reverently by during that period. j No train is to be started between the 1 times named, and every train running on any j portion of the lines of the colony must be j brought to a standstill at half-past eleven j a.m., and remain motionless until twelve J noon,'at which hour the ordinary business j of the Department is to be resumed. I | Trains which have been stopped on their j | journey will continue and run correspond* ! i ingly later to their destinations. j All the railway workshop men through- j out the colony are to receive pay during the three days the shops are closed. All. other railway men now at work will receive three days' holidays when they can be spared. THE PROCEEDINGS IN WELLINGTON. The Hon. J. G. Ward telegraphs to us as follows : —As it may be of some interest to the people in your town to know what has been arranged for the open-air funeral service to be held in Wellington on Saturday next, at three p.m., the day on which the funeral of Her late Majesty the Queen takes place, I send you the programme arranged for the occasion. His Excellency the Governor and suite and members of the/Ministry will be present, and all classes are invited to attend. The programme is as follows :—(1) Hymn given out by Bishop Wallis, of the Anglican Church, ami sung by the combined churches —"Oh, God Our Help in Ages Past;" (2) first three sentences of funeral service, and extempore . prayer by Archbishop Red-1 wood, Catholic Church ; (3) Psalm xc, the § Rev. W. Olliver, Wesleyan Church ; (4) § hymn, given out by the Rev. J. R. Glasson, § Congregational Church— Our Heads 1 Are Bowed With Woe;" (5) Psalm xxxix., I Rabbi Von. Stavern, Jewish Church ; (6) hymn given out Mr. F. Hales, Church of Christ— When the Day of Toil is Done ;" (7) I. Corinthians XV. 20 to end, the Rev J. Paterson, Presbyterian Church ; (8) address by Bishop Wallis ;. (9) extempore ; prayer by the Rev. C. Dallaston, Baptist ! Church; (10) hymn, given out by ■ Adjutant • Hatcher, Salvation Army captain— Rock of Aces :" (11) the Lord's Prayer and BeneI diction, by Bishop Wallis. In addition to I this, I have made a suggestion that through- ! out the colony the church bells and public ! bells should be muffled and tolled on the oc- I | casion. I should be obliged if you would j give publicity to this. • 1