DUKE OF CLARENCE'S DEATH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9301, 29 January 1892, Page 2

DUKE OF CLARENCE'S DEATH.

QUEEN'S LETTER TO HER SUBJECTS. |PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION^ London, January 28. — In a notification published in the Gazette, tho Queen thanks her subjects for their sympathy with the Royal Family in their recent bereavement. In a letter to Mr Matthews, the Home Secretary, Her Majesty expressed her deep sense of tho loyalty aad affectionato sympathy of her subjects throughout the Empire on the occasion, which was sadder and more tragical than any misfortune which had ever befallen herself and hers; as well as tho nation. It was an overwhelming blow to the nation, Her Majesty said, to lose so promising a Prince, and it was rendered hard for tho sorrow-stricken parents, the dear young bride, and the fond grandmother to bow in submission to the inscrutable decree of Providence. The sympathy of millions had been touchingly and visibly, expressed,, a fact which was deeply gratifying, and which caused hor on behalf of herself and her children to expres3 from her heart her gratitude to alt. She had loved the Duke of Clarence as a ■on, and tho sympathy evinced at his death would be a help and con°olation to her. She had sustained heavy bereavements during the last thirty years, yet she earnestly prayed for health and strength that she might work for the good and happiness of her dear country and Empire while her lifo lasts.