The Late Duke of Clarence

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 86, 19 January 1892, Page 2

The Late Duke of Clarence

ft I PBlt UNITED PRESS AB3OOIATION. I London, January 16. The remains of the late Duke of Clarenoe and Avondale will arrive at Windsor on Tuesday, and the funeral will take place on Wednesday with full military honours. Masonic emblems have been placed on the coffin. The demonstrations of sympathy and mourning are universal throughout the Empire. Princess Mary, who was to have married the Duke of Clarence, clings i to the body, wringing her hands and calling, " Ob, Eddie, Eddie, speak tome." Her/ condition is causing some anxiety, and" all efforts of the family to calm her have so far proved unavailing: ■•--.• ~ ? " The Princess of Wales is very ill? requiring the services of a physician. His Holiness the Pope sent a message of condolence. . ■■ . *■ The Miners' Federation rejected a motion that a message of condolence be sent to Her Majesty. • V Colonel Cornwallis West suggests that the money intended to be spent on the purchase of wedding presents should be devoted as a national dower to the deceased's betrothed. , .■ Two thousand called at Marlborough House on Thursday, expressing sympathy' with the Prince and Princess of Wales. A number of foreign Princes, including Prince Henry of Prussia, with a detachment of Blucher Hussars, and the Grand Duke George (second son of the Czar) will attend the. funeral. ' .' ! The Queen warmly acknowledged the sympathetic message from the President of France and the Foreign Courts. She. proceeds to Windsor on Tuesday. [ „, Mr Gladstone, -who is absent' at the, Biviera, sent to the Prmce ami Princess of Wales a long' telegram expressing' sympathy. .- •-' ■', .■■-*^m-.i v ,'^ Her Majesty the Queen will attend the funeral if permitted by/ her; medical adyisers. ' ..".., January 17. Princess Mary is, recovering from] the prostration and the effects of grief caused . by the Prince's death. 7 , /. / ; •; , % It is now stated to be untrue that the Dublin Municipal Council refused to lower the flag at the Mansion House. ,. :^ The members of the Boyal? Family of Denmark and the Duke of Hesse will attend the funeral, but the King ot the Belgians will be unable to be present on account of ill-health. •■: •:lfM / .1 . •':£ The Times states that the expressions of grief from all parts of the Empire are proof that the bonds of allegiance are in no way weakened. Melbourne, January 16. The day fixed for the funeral p£ the. Duke of Clarence will be declared addy of general mourning. bTDNEY, January 17. i Throughout the whole of the colonies, special services were held in the churches to-day as a mark of respect for the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. The majority of the buildings were draped in black; January 18. The Assembly to-day passed an address of condolence to the Queen and Prince and. Princess of Wales on the death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale. Dunsdin, January 16. The Masonic Lodges throughout Otago, under the English, Irish, and 1 ScottishConstitutions, have been instructed to go into mourning for three months inconsequence of the death of Bight Worship.ful Brother the, .Duke of Clarence and Avondale. ...... Auckland, January 18. References were made at all" the Anglican and dissenting churches yesterday to the deaths of the Prince and Cardinal. At the Roman Catholic Churches the death of the Prince was not mentioned, though lengthy allusions were made to the late Cardinal Manning. / .i.