THE QUEENS DEATH.
GERMAN PERIOD OF MOURNING' • EXTENDED.
THE POSITION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.
A PEAYEE FOE THE WELFARE OF THE EMPIRE TO BE INTRODUCED.
Received February 6, 8.58 a.m.
LONDON, February 5. The Kaiser has .extended the full period of mourning to-be observed by the German Court, to March Bth, and half-mourning to April 23rd. Prince Henry of Prnsßia has been made 'a British admiral. ■ > : Chicago is raising, a fund for a memorial of the Queen. In the Roman Catholic cTmrcMS in Canada and Cape Colony requiem masses for the Queen were said on Sunday. The refusal of Cardinal Voughan to act similarly has "given so much annoyance, to Roman Catholics in England" that be has decided- to introduce a prayer for the welfare at the Empire, without reference to the death of the Queen, into' the service. ■In closing' the burial service, the choir, besides "Sleep the last sleep," also sang Tennyson's "The Face Death is Towards the Sun of Life," from his ode on the death of the Duke of Clarence.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10257, 6 February 1901, Page 3
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174THE QUEENS DEATH. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10257, 6 February 1901, Page 3
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