Funeral of the Queen.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 February 1901, Page 3

Funeral of the Queen.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.)

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Received this day at 8 59 a.m. London, February 5. Tho Kaiser has extended the full period of mourning to be observed by the German Court till March Bth, and half mourning to April 22nd.

Prince Henry of Prussia lias been ■jlfade a British Admiral. Chicago is raising a fund for a memorial of the Queen. In the Roman Catholic Churches at Canada and Cape Colony there were requeim masses for the Queen on Sunday. The refusal of Cardinal Yaughan to act similarly has given so much annoyance to the Roman Catholics in England that he has decided to introduce a prayer for the welfare of the Empire, without reference to the death of the Queen into the service.

In closing the burial the choir besides singing “ Sleep thy last sleep,” also sang Tennyson’s “The face of death is towards the run of life,*’ from his ode on the death of the Duke of Clarence. 1 ’

The King in London.

Foyalties returning Home.

London, February 5. The Foreign Royalties who took part in the funeral are departing. The King accompanied the Kaiser from Windsor to London. They drove to Marlborough House where he lunched with the Kaiser. They had a tremendous reception. The streets wore decorated and crowded with thousands of spectators. The Kaiser left Charing Cross Station for Sheerness, embarking on the German Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern. The Duke of Connaught succeeds the King as Grandmaster of Freemasons.