Funeral of the Queen.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 February 1901, Page 3

Funeral of the Queen.

(per press association.)

[uy electric telegraph—copyright] Received this day at 9 27 a. m, Brisbane, This Day.

Chamberlain cabled tho King’s warm thanks for the colony’s messages of sympathy.

Melbourne, This Day. All the Queen’s Councillors have been resworn as King’s Councillors. Received this day, at 8 47 a m. London, February 4.

En route from Albert Memorial Chapel to Frogmoro, tho coffin will be preceded by the Queen’s company of Grenadier Guards, the Duke of Argylo as Governor of Windsor Castle, tho Highland Pipers, servants of Windsor Castle, the Band of Grenadier Guards. Then follow also proceeding tho coffin the Bishop of Winchester as clerk of closet, Dean Lord Chamberlain and Lord Steward. Tho Pipers will play at the gates of tho Mausoleum, and then will follow tho Clergy and Choristers to the building.

Received this day at 8 53 a. m. London, February 4,

At the funeral service on Saturday there was, by the Kings wish a succession of solemn anthems “Man that is born of woman," was sung to Westloys music; “Thou knowost, to Purcells,” a setting of the Lords prayer to Gounods music, then the anthem by Tschaikowsky, a sombre Russian melancholy prevading the “Hallerujah,”

The memorial service held at Boston on Saturday was largely attended.

At Havanna, Admiral Wood, Consuls and many Cubans attended the services. Services of tho Greek and Armenian ritual were held through the East.