THE MEMORIAL SERVICES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11667, 29 January 1901, Page 2

THE MEMORIAL SERVICES.

Our Inglewood correspondent writes, that memorial 'services were held in&B the churches at tnfelewood on Sundayfor Her late Majesty Queen Victoria. Refer* ences were made to her long, glorious, and spotless life. Although her reign was a long one, she had her fall share of grief and sorrow. The last time your humble servant saw Her late Majesty was in 1861, when a guard of honour, composed ofone captain, two sejgeanta, and forty rank an* file o* the Ut Battalion 18th Royal Irish acoompanied Her, Majesty, the Prince Consort, and the Royal Family from Buttevant, County Coifc .*o,4itß Lakes of Killarney. The guard #$ honour was composed of men who had fought in China, Burmah, and the Crimea, and none of them were under sft. lOin. in height. I was one of the sergeants. The Vojnn.teers attended their different pjaetaof worship on Sunday, and *U those that had uniforms wore tfcem, with blaok ribbon, on the breast. Our Stratford correspondent writes j—. Memorial services for the late, Qtreeit were held in all the churches or the Mounted Rifles nnde* Captain Symes and the Fire Brigade wider supt. Kivell attending Holy Trinity in uniform. His Worship the Mayor has received the following reply to the telegram seat to the acting-Premier enquiring if" the Imperial troops were Ukely to visit New Plymouth :—: — "Very g)ad to inform you if possible to do an, but the trouble is that I cannot say until after I meet the officers of tho Imperial troops. It depends entirety whether they will agree to our doius so. If they do I will be only t«*x gJad to get a portion of them, to New Plymouth, but you. oaa veadilv understand that to a very great extent their wishes have to be con suited, but I wil telegraph you immediately after arrival of troops and let yon know whether we can arrange it.— J. G. Ward, Wellington."