THE KNIGHTS' CHAPEL.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE KNIGHTS' CHAPEL.

NEW ZEAIMDEPP AT ST. PAUL'S. ~ .;■;: : JiibNDON, May 1 ; 1 "Det the bariiiidr . of, the Right JEfori! Williani Hillier, Earl of " OnsloW,' be ioav reverently rerrioved, and' delivered to the Kings '.of ' Arms, who' will place '.it'.ihj.ihe altar 'steps.;""'.' I 1 "',.,' " •/ .; . '•;'■'". '.; .) A New.- Zealander was present q\i St.' George'g.D^ at. tlie service' iri, "the Oaapel of St. Michael arid St. CeSiye (in ..St;,' Paul's Cathedral) > Avhen the' 'banrieirs/bf'.'dead kriights/Avere' taken down. Two'wierV of foi'hier' Gove'rijors of Nfw ' Lbi j d Onslow arid Lord 'iSUnihore (forriierly S/if' Arthur r Gordon). _! The* New ' Zea'lander, wh'b Was' much ihipressed by : 'the* ce'i-eriibriy, says : I had waited m the cathedral /under the dome, which' has always, to "my 1 ' mri'd, signalised; the very centre of our over, seas life m "Britain. Westminster Ab-iey niay belong to the Empire/but we are riot directly' represented there. '.In,, tt. Pahl 's '■ we have memories ' of Sir (> -io 1 g'e Tind Mr Seddon \ and here it seem 6d to be nibst natural to hear the r.ame pf William' Hillier,' Earl of OrisloAv, bhe 6f the' riiost distinguished Governors of pur Dominion., 'j "Passing frbrii the dome to this chapel one /saw the picture 'The Light pf the World*' AAdth a strange llew >*ola*. ing oil it from the bright suir oii^ide and the stained •fcjlaks wiridbAv; end ori the pillar oppbsitd'tt mo^e recent Watts picture- 'Time, Death and Judgment,' and the Avordj- 1 , 'He that' hee'detli'Vthe word shall riot sow;' and he that fear^th the skies shall riot'rteap'/' These workers here' commemorated had been busy on the oiitposts. Ahd v 'os Avhbm Avas this gathering composed? Friends and rela.tives of men who had laid : dowh their Weapon^— AVeap'rins 'made-bright by use far from .the heart bf-'thd Empire: 'Their banners had been raised m this chapel, and to-day their friehds had come to see, as it Avere, to.. hear the -sAVeet amen' to /those labors. It. Aras then I heard the voice of the herald order the banners bf William Hillier, Robert Hart, Arthur' SUuimbre to be reverently removed. .. ( . ,'Tb me ,if meant' the ba>sirig bf a irienib'ry; ay herein a sohbol m the South of -New Zealand a cheery and bright face- appeared-^His 'Excel-' lency the GbvernOr-r-a Avord/to, the boys — the friendly pat bn v t3ie shoulders— and then gone. But the room was made more sunny by his visit. How easy to recognise at times the great-, ness through the humanity of a man;"!