DEMISE OF THE GROWN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 813, 10 May 1910, Page 9

DEMISE OF THE GROWN.

OBSERVANCE AS TO MOURNING. GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. The following announcements appeared in Gazettes extraordinary, published yesterday:— Prime Minister's Office, ' Wellington, 7th May, 1910. The Government has reoeived, with profound sorrow, the announcement of the death of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward . the Seventh,, on the evening of ■ the 6th instant, at forty-five min- . utes after eleven o'clock... ■ 1 J. G. WARD, - . Prime Minister. ■ Tho following is ; tho Proclamation notifying the demise of the Crown: — : ' PLTJNKET, Governor. A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS by Section four of ■ the Demise of the Crown Act, 1908, it is enacted that any deniiso of the Crown shall not affect anything done in New Zealand before the day whereon -the iGovornor by Proclamation, notifies such demise, and all things done in New Zealand at any time after such demise but boforo tho day of the publication of the Gazette; containing "tho aforesaid .Proclamation, and which but for the said Aot might bo affected by any such demise, shall have the samo effect and bo of tho s_amo_ foroo .as if no fuich demise :had happened: NoSv;'therefore',-I,' .William; Lee,' Baron'Plurikbt, tho' Governor'of.'the Dominion' of New Zealand, 'in . pursuance l ,;of' 'thb,: provisions of''tho said scction aid . for tho purposes thereof, do'by .'this Prodantiation , hereby notify that' His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward the Seventh died at Buck-, ingham Palace, London, on tho sixth; day of May, one thousand' nine hundred, and ten.

Given under the land of His Excellency the Right Honourable ."William ■ Lee, Baron Plunket, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of . Saint i Michael and Saint George, Knight ■ Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief in and over His Majesty's Dominion of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Dominion, at the Government House, at Wellington, this ninth ■ day of May,' in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ten. J. G. WARD. God' Save the King! The following notification has been issued -regarding the public observance as to mourning:— j PLUNKET, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government Buildings, at Wellington this ninth day of May,-1910. The Right -J. G. Ward, K.C.M.G., presiding in Council. His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of Nc\y Zealand, having been advised by tho Secretary of State for the Colonies of the lamented death of His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward the Seventh, and acting by' and with tho advice and consent of the Executive- Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby enjoin as follows upon his late Majesty's loving and lamenting. subjects- in tho said Dominion in token of their grief and sorrow for tho groat loss the Empire has sustained:— 1. All ministers of religion find all congregations ■ are invited on Sunday, the fifteenth instant, and also on tho day appointed for tho funeral of his late Majesty, to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the Dominion. 2. The Now Zealand onsign, with a scarf of crape attached to tho flagstaff one foot above the flag, shall bo displayed at half-mast on all public buildings in tho Dominion till sunset each day and until sunset of tho day appointed for the funeral. 3. All ships in tho various harbours of tho Dominion are invited to display their ensigns at half-mast each day until and including tho day of the funeral. 4. All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of his late Majesty are requested to do the same, in such manner as their> loyalty and feelings direct. 5. And, generally, until after tho day of the funeral, it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature bo suspended, and that on that day all placos of business and public ontertainnicnt be closed. J.' P. ANDREWS, Clorlc of tho Executive Council. SUGGESTIONS TO THE PEOPLE. In order to secure uniformity of action, the following suggestions are made by tho Government:— "That a close day of mourning be observed on the occasion of the funeral of King Edward. "A general holiday on that day will bo proclaimed lnt-er. "Women ami girls are asked to wear a band of black ribbon on tho right arm above tho elbow, and men to wear a strip of black ribbon on tho lapel of tho coat until after tlio funeral of tbo King."