THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11956, 1 February 1901, Page 5

THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS TOUCHING TRIBUTES OP sympathy. ORDER OF THE MILITARY PROCESSION. General Requiem Services. Press Association—By Tele-graph—Copyright. LONDON, January 30. (Received Jan. 31, at 8.50 a.m.) The King is -in London completing the arrangements for (lie funeral. Sixty Princes or the Royal blood will ride in the procession, which will be headed liy the volunteers and yeomanry. Colonial representatives- and -the Prussian Dragoons will also participate. The King will ride alone behind the gun carriage which carries the Queen's: remains. He will be followed by the Kaiser and other reigning Sovereigns. The total length of the,route of the procession through the city will he three and a-quai ter miles. The body of the Queen will remain till Monday at St. George's Chapel, Windsor. - It. will then be removed to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, in the presence of the Royal mourners only. Owing to the extended' nature of the procession in London over 20.000 regulars and 7000 volunteers are needed to line the route. TRIBUTES OF SYMPATHY. (Received Jan. 31, at 9.22 a.m. The Mohammedans at Kimberley have, since the day of her death, held daily memorial services in honour of the late Queen. General M'Arthur, commander in the Philippines, is suspending all military duty on Saturday except that which is absolutely necessary for guards, out- of respect i to the memory of the Queen. He has ordered that the guns salute half-hourly be- j tween sunrise and sundown, v.-lien 45 will be fired as a salute to the Union Jack. LORD ROSEBERY'S EULOGY. LONDON, January 31. (Received Feb. 1, at- 0.10 a.m.) I Lord Rosebery, addressing the Royal Scottish Association Corporation, delivered a touching eulogy of the Queen, who, he said, had realised that the essentia! dignity of a throne rested on the dignity of a supreme example. The invalided colonial soldiers have been allotted seats to view the funeral. The Colonial Institute and British Empire League send addresses condoling with the King. THE MILITARY PROCESSION. (Received Feb. 1, at- 1.41 a.m.) An army order directs the following order of procession: —Officers of the headquarters staff, the bands of the Horse Guards and Second Life Guards playing Beethoven's and Chopin's funeral marches only, detachments of volunteers, yeomanry, and colonial corps, 25 officers and 100 men from the Shornclifl'e Militia, Honourable Artillery Company, Departmental Corps, 20 officers, representatives of the Indian army, 600 infantry, 400 Foot Guards, Engineers, Garrison Artillery, Battery and Field Artillery, Horse Artillery, three squadrons of Cavalry of Ihe line, a detachment of the Household Cavalry, 500 marines and bluejackets, the headquarters staff and military attaches, the bands of the Marine Guards and Engineers Artillery. SERVICES IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, January 31. (Received Jan. 31, at 9.45 a.m.) The Lieutenant-Governor has requested the churches to hold. services on Saturday, and to toll the flrebells. The theatres will not hold their usual matinees, but the managers have decidcd to open in the evening. (Received Jan. 31, at 9.45 a.m.) Mr Barton states that the Daily Chronicle has absolutely no foundation for its statement that he had snubbed Mr Chamberlain. No external suggestion had been made by anyone as to who should represent the Commonwealth. They had suggested Lord Jersey, but as he was on a visit to India tho Ministry named Lord Carrington. VICTORIA DAY. MELBOURNE, January 31. Sir G. Turner approves of the idea of making May 24 a Victoria Day, and a national holiday for all time, THE WELLINGTON UNITED SERVICE. THE ROMAN CATHOLICS STAND OUT. (From Ouh Own - Corrksi'Ondkn't.) WELLINGTON, January 31. Elaborate preparations are being made for the memorial service qn Saturday afternoon. A platform is being erected in front of the Parliament Buildings,'and the front of the buildings is being draped with'blaek. It was hoped to have a service in which all denominations might join, but the Roman Catholics have now decided not to attend. Their action in backing out of an arrangement already made is causing a good deal of unfavourable comment. The following letter from Archbishop Redwood was received at Government House this afternoon:— "To his Excellency the Governor.—Your I Excellency, I have reconsidered the matter of the- memorial sorviee on the occasion of the Queen's funeral, and after consultation with my clergy, now assembled for the annual retreat and synod, I find that it will ho more consistent with the moral course adopted by the Catholic Church, and with what is being done by Cardinal Vaughan and other digI nitaries in England, to hold a memorial service of our own at the same hour on Saturday, attended by over 40 of my clergy in synod assembled." If your Excellency sees no inconvenience, I will send a copy of this letter's contents to the local press. May I ask your Excellency to kindly telephone to me on this latter suggestion." The following, message was telephoned from Government House to the Archbishop at St. Patrick's College today:—"The Governor has no objections to the publication of the letler of the 30th Janu-, ary received at 1 o'clock to-day by hand. He regrets that you have found on reconsideration that you prefer not taking part in the ceremony which had been previously arranged with you."

THK WELLINGTON MEMORIAL. (Per United Press' Association.) WELLINGTON, January 31. A meeting of citizens warmly supported the Governor's proposal for the crcction of a statue to perpetuate the memory of the late Queen in Wellington. Over £250 was raised in the room, including his Excellency's 25gs and 50gs from the Ministry, and other subscriptions of 25gs. REQUIEM SERVICES. In addition to the services intimated yesterday by tlio Church Council, further meetings are advertised in tliis issue. In the Kaikorni Presbyterian Church the Presbyterians, Baptists, anil Wcsleyans will unite to hold a service at 11 a.m. Anderson's Bay Presbyterian, St. Stephen's Presbyterian, and King street Congregational Churches will hold services at 11.30 a.m. In yesterday's issue the hour of meeting .named for First, ICnox, Moray place, St. Matthew's, and Caversham Churches was 11.30. We are requested now to state that in compliance with the suggestion of the Acting-Premier that the hour of meeting bo in the afternoon, the Church Council services in the places of worship specified will probably talw place at 3 o'clock. Definite intimation will be made this evening, and particulars will appear in our columns tomorrow. Attention is called to the requiem service at St. Matthew's Church, Stafford street, on Saturday, at 11.30, for tiie parishes of Morniugton, St. Matthew's, and any others. The form of service will be printed, and can bo taken as a memento. Tlie service will be short, and is fixed to synchronise with the Government order for the stoppage of all trains from 11.30 to noon. Our ; Waitahuna correspondent writes:— /'Services will be held in the Presbyterian

Church on Saturday morning at 11 by Messrs Patrick and M'Caw, and in the Anglican Church by Mr A. M. Burnett. The Presbyterian Church will remain draped for one month, and possibly the Anglican Church also. Tho dredgeowners have all agreed to close down at midnight on Friday and not to resume work until midnight on Sunday." The council ot the Auckland Chamber of Commerce passed a motion placing on record their heartfelt sorrow at the death of our beloved Queen, and sympathy with the Royal family. A Napier telegram states that a monster open-air service is to be held on the Marine parade on Saturday afternoon. The Primate will preside, and Dean Hovell preach, ministers of other denominations taking different parts. At a meeting of the Gislwrne Harbour Board Ilia Worship the Mayor (chairman) brought forward n proposal that the name of Poverty Bay should be changed to Victoria Bay, in honour of the late Queen. A great open-air memorial service will be held in Napier on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock round the Jubilee belfry, which will he suitably draped in purple, with many wreaths, and where seating accommodation can bo provided for 2000 people. The Church of England burial service will bo read by the Anglican clergymen, and tho Presbyterian and Wcsleyan ministers will deliver addresses. A Wellington telegram says:—"All men employed in any capacity by the Public Works department-throughout the colony cease work on Friday night until Monday, by order of the Minister." Saturday will be observed at a close holiday in Tiinaru, even the fruiterers and confectioners closing their promises. All the hotels will bo closed from 3 to 4- p.m., the hour fiied for the united religious service, which will be taken pari in by all denominations except the Roman Catholics. The interior ot tho Magistrate's Court at Port Chalmers was artistically draped in the Royal mourning yesterday under the superintendence of tho Mayor of Port Chalmers, who intends meeting the several clergymen and other gentlemen this morning to take steps for a memorial service for the late Queen. It is expected n united choir will la'"e part ill tho service. In connection with the memorial Fervices to-morrow the Railway department will issue excursion tickets from any station to any station. All railway goods sheds and railway wharves will ho closed to-morrow. The North Dunedin Rifles will muster at Knox Church corner at 9.15 to-morrow morniiiji to attend one of the memorial services. All ears on the City and Suburban Tramway Company's and the Mornington Tramway Company's lines will be stopped from 11.30 a.m. till noon to-morrow. All tho Government offices, the banks, and the municipal buildings at Port Chalmers are draped in deep mourning. Excepting the Melbourne office, all Victorian telegraph offices will be closed all day on Saturday, 2nd. By the omission of " and " it was made to appear that the Mayor of Naseby read the proclamation of accession of tho King in front of tho County Council offices. Tho Mayor read the proclamation in front of the Naseby Post Office, while Mr H. Wilson, the county clerk, read it in front of the County Chambers.-