THE LATE KING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14210, 26 May 1910, Page 5

THE LATE KING.

KIPLING POEMS. Press Association-Bv Telearapli-Coiivri<dit LONDON, May '2-i! In many schools to-day Kipling's "Recessional" was sung and his newpoem "The Dead King" was read. DISTANT CELEBRATIONS. Funeral celebrations were held on a large scale at such distant places as Fanning Island, the Seychelles, Antigua, and Trinidad. AUDIENCE WITH THE QUEEN. Queen Alexandra gave audience to Mr Roosevelt (America), Lord Strathcona (Canada), and Sir G. Seid (Australia), together. QUEEN MOTHER'S GRATITUDE. Queen Alexandra granted audience to Sir G. H. Reid to-day, and expressed in most touching terms her gratitude for the loyal devotion shown during King Edward's reign and to his memory, and for the sympathy extended to herself by Australian people. At the meeting of the Waimate County Council yesterday, the following resolution was carried in silence:— "That members desire to enter on the minutes of the Council an expression of their profound sorrow of the grievous loss to the British Empire hy the untimely death on the 6th inst. of His Majesty King Edward VII., whoso prudent and tactful judgment as a ruler induced a more friendly relationship among the nations, and helped to strengthen the prestige and dignity of the Empire over which he ruled. They would also mark their deep and heartfelt sympathy with the Queen Mother and members of the Royal family in the bereavement which' has befallen ■them. They further desire to put on record their lovalty and devotion to His Majesty Kiuc George V. on his accession to the Throne."

When the Mount Peel Road Board met yesterday, the chairman, Mr G. J. Dennistoun, said that the meeting in ordinary course would have been held on the day appointed for the funeral of the late" "King, and thev adjourned as a mark of respect. He now moved a resolution exoressing the Board's sorrow for the King's death, symnathy with the Royal Familv, and loyalty to Kinc: George V. The motion was carried, those Present standing, and the Board adjourned for a quarter of an hour as a mark of respect.