THE DEAD EMPRESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 74, 10 August 1901, Page 3

THE DEAD EMPRESS

♦ - i ra HUH ASSOCIATION. Losdon, August 8. Tha Court goes into mourning to-day, dunging on the 29th and resuming half-meorning fer Queen Victoria on September 19th. The Navy and Army wear mourning until the 19lh. By the King's desire the programme of the Duka of Cornwall's tour will no 1 ; be modified in consequence of the death «f the Empress. Beceived 10,0.24 a.m. London, August 9. The House of Lords pwed an address of sympitby to the King, Lods Salisbury and Spancer paying tributes to the memory of the late Empress. Mr Grainger, South Australian Agent-General, oa behalf of the Government and people rf that Stite, •ends & wreath for the coffin. The Australasian Agents-General forward a joint letter of conde eoce. Memorial services are co be held in mveral London churches on Tuesday. The Bfehop of Sipon, Canon Teignmouth Bbora assisting, officiated at a quiet service before the coffin ia the bedroom of the Empress, in the p-e----reoce of the Imperial family and tbe Grard Duke of Hesse and the Duke of Cambridge. '• Sunday's memorial service will b j held ia fulfilment of a wish expres-ed by tbe Empress a few days ago, when ehe remarked, " I do not wish to be laid on a bier in Kronberg Oastle, whe> e I have Buffered such intense pain; but in the Church of St. John, in Kronberg, where I so often foupd consolation." Beceived 10, 0.52 am. ' London, August 9. Prince Henry of Prussia was informed of his bereavement off Breste. President Loubet offered a special train to convoy him to Germany.