THE NATION’S TRIBUTE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16893, 25 November 1925, Page 7

THE NATION’S TRIBUTE.

BRITISH PARLIAMENT PAYS HOMAGE. Til KUNE OF Tilt: PFOI’I.K’S HEARTS. live,.. Tel. C ,j»y ligiit United Press Assn., (Renter's Telegram.l LUNuDN, Nov. 25. Air. Baldwin, in Hie House of Loin mans, in moving that an address be presum'd to (lie King sympathising with !i:m on Ihe death of Queen Alexandra, said all would ever remember her with grateful affection for the love .she blip.led in all e.asses. Looking hack on 1 he- Queen’s lile nothing was more strikin' Ilian the way she blent lied herself with the people of the country inline d.atciy she landed. ilers was a personality which impressed everybody. Every member of the House felt himscli in tlie position of a mother’s son, aim in that, spirit sent his heartfelt sympathy in tho King, who was hearing th,- sharpest and vet the 1 endere.-i loss lo which 1 lie .son of man is lie:r.

Mr. MacDonald, in seconding the motion, said: “We have felt for two generations the presence of a ladv of very sweet graciousness, humane consideration and simple tenderness ot heart, one revealing the dignity oi Royalty and Hi,' close kinship of humanity. Whether in the glowing blaze near the Throne or in the more subdued lights of widowhood. she won our hearts that spring day of 1862 and kept them to the end." Mr. Lloyd George .said: “It is fifteen years since .she reigned Queen, hut she still held the throne of the people’s hearts, because she had all the graces and charms that fascinated people. Her whole life marked that charity which thinketh no evil and helieveth all.” In the House of Lords. Lords Kalis bury. Haldane and Oxford, and the Archbishop of Canterbury voiced the senti menls of the House in the resolution of condolence with the King on the death of Queen Alexandra. Many Peeresses :n deep mourning sat in the side galleries. SYDNEY. Nov. 2d. The Assemble. having; carried a motion of svmpnthy with the King on the death of Queen Alexandra, adjourned for the rlav. as a mark of respect for the late Queen. STATE BANQUET CANCELLED. (AnsG-nlian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 25. 11 n.m.) LONDON. Nov. 24. Tlie State banquet and oilier festivities which were lo have been bold on December 1 hiivc been cancelled, in consequence of Queen Alexandra’s death. FOUR KINGS ATTEND FUNERAL. AVOIDANCE OF POMP. SIMPLE SERVICE AT WEST MINSTER MOI’RNING IvVERYWHERE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received November 25. 11 a.in.) LONDON, Nov. 24. At least four Kings will attend Queen Alexandra’s funeral. Apart from King George., her son. there win. be pi'esent King Christian, of Denmark, a nephew, King Haakon, of Norway, a son-in-law, and King Albert of Belgium. The coffin will be taken from the chancel of Sandringham Church on Thursday afternoon, and conveyed on a lutiid-l/ior to Wolferton station, the King and Queen walking behind the body, followed by a- great procession of tenantry and villagers. There will be no ceremony on arrival at Liverpool Station. The removal of the casket to the Chapel Royal at St. James’ Palace will he carried out in the quietest manner possible, the King's desire being to avoid all pomp. Durine the night the coffin will be walclnd bv Genllomoii-al arms ami Yeo-m-n of the Guard. Tlie- procession from St. James' Palace to Westminster Abbey will start at eleven o'clock and will pass through the M ill. Whitehall and Parliament street. It is proposed that the gun carriage which Imre the bodies of Victoria and Edward shall W used, drawn by 150 bluejackets. but the Labor paper, the Daily Herald, protests against the monstrous suggestion that a woman reher kindliness and generosity- should lie drawn through the streets on a hideous military contraption, the very symbol of meanness and hale. The four Kings will walk behind tho gun carriage. In the Abbey Hie coffin will be placed at the fool of the chancel steps. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury will conduct a simple service, assisted hv Canon Carnegie and Precentor Nixon. 1 lie service, will last three-quarters of an hour, and will include the Queen's favorite psalm, the 23rd. The first hymn will he “Now tlie Laborer’s ’lask is O’er,” and the second, Baring Goulds “On The Resurrection Morn.” As the mourners leave Chopin’s Funeral March will ho played. Admission to the Abbey will he by ticket, hut after one o’clock the public will he admitted, and will file past, the coffin until nine, after which it will be taken quietly to Windsor. Mouniinrr is everywhere apparent in London. women largely wearing black. Most of flic shop windows were re-dressed at the week-end with black, grey and purple dresses. The theatres are closing on Fridav throughout the country. MELBOURNE. Now 25. The State Parliaments of Yrictoria and Tasmania, after passing resolutions oi condolence with tlie King on tlie death of Queen Alexandra, adjourned for the dnv.