EMPIRE DAY.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12865, 25 May 1905, Page 2

EMPIRE DAY.

United Press Association.— By -Electric Telegraph.*— Copyright . Ottawa, May 24. Empire Day was officially celebrated in the Canadian schools cm Tuesday. Public men delivered patriotic addresses. % London, May 24. Six thousand schools in Great Britain alone (kept Empire Day. SVOusical programmes included the Australian National Anthem and Kipling's Re- ; cessiofnal song of Australia. ' ' Sydney, May ; 24. Favoured with fine weather, the Emipiro Day celeb/ration was higjhlly successful. There were enthusiastdo de- > mfcmsttfati'ons of s^aal ohildren i throughout the State. Srports were 'held, and the city anjd hatjbodir were gay with buntingj Statiues of Queen ! Victoria were decorated. Sfpeaflciing at the Lord (Mayor's luncheon tho Gov- ; eviiov said he 'fchdu'g.ht Emjnliro Day j iwo»ul'd do an immense amoumt of good, j | There were successful Empire Day - colorations in the other States. 1 CELEBRATIONS IN AUSTRALIA. | Received May 25i 10.37 q.m. ' Sydney, [Miay 25i The JSmjpire Day demonstrations in- j i eluded a com,bined schools gathering of three- thousand children at yidtoria fc barrac;ks. Mr ReM, at Tarn Worth, delivered a glowing Empire Day oration to eight hundred children, including a eulogy of the King. i Melbourne, Mav_2si | The Federal Government has received a cable of Empire greetings from Lord IMeath. The Government replied that the Coromonwealth cordially reciprocated the Empire greetings. Received May 23, 8.52 a. mi. London, May 21. There were Empire Day celebration* in hundreds of towns and villages. There were flago and banners on thousands of Churches and public buildings, and the topic of the day was the dinner speeches. King Edward inspected the Army Corps and un- ! veiled a metnorial to the Medical ! Corps at Aldershot. The Prince of I Wales unveiled the colonial Boer War Memorial in St. Paul's. Per Press Association. Nelson, .Way 25. Empire Day was obseuvod as a half holiday by the business -popple. Jn the morning the school child von saluted the flag, and in tlio aftrantoldni the Salvation Army followed Mnit.