IN OTHER CENTRES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 815, 12 May 1910, Page 6

IN OTHER CENTRES.

(By Teleeraph-Presa Association.! • Christchurch, May 11. At a meeting to-day of the General Committee of the Canterbury A. and P. Association the following motion was carried in silence, members' standing:— "That the members of tho Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral. Association desire to place on record their sincere sorrow at the death of his late Majesty King Edward, and sympathy with Queen Alexandra in her great bereavement. They desire to record an expression of their loyalty and devotion to his Majesty Kin" George V on his'accession to the throne" and their hope ithat he may long be spared to guide the destinies of the British Empire."

Westport, May 11. The Westport Borough Council met tonight and passed a resolution of sympathy in connection with the late King's death. It was decided to hold a municipal memorial service on the day of the funeral. The council then adjourned for a week. The Westport Chamber of Commerce also adjourned its meeting to next

Waimate, May 11. At a pnblio meeting last evening it was decided to hold a united memorial service in memory of the late King It was also decided to raise funds to erect a permanent memorial which is to take the form of a band rotunda in Seddon Square.

A TOUGHINC INCIDENT.

A touching incident in. connection with tho announcement in Wellington of tho death of the King, is.reported. On Saturday afternoon, while Mr, J. C. Wobb, headmaster of the Normal School, was walking along the Makara beach, he camo upon throe Italian fishermen. To one of the group, an elderly man, he said , : "Do you know King Edward?"

"Yos," replied the fisherman. "I do know him."

"The British King?" "Yes." "Well," said Mr. Wobb, "ho is dead." "Is that true?" queried tho fisherman, earnestly.

"Yes," replied Mr. Wobb. . "Horrible I Horriblol" tnuttered the man, and ho turned to his companions and spoko a few words in Italian. Thon the three walked slowly away in tho direction of their huts at, Wharehou Bay. The old fisherman presently reappeared, carrying a small red "Union Jack, which ho hoisted half-mast on a polo at his hut. ■ Then lio stood in front of it, and roverontly bared his head.

"It was a touching demonstration of tho. affection in which the . Peacemaker was hold by the European nations," remarked Mr. Webb, when recounting tho incident to a representative of The Dominion.