QUEEN VICTORIA'S MONUMENT.
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Received this day, at 10 2 a m. London, March 27
The proposal to erect in front of Michingharn Palace a National memorial to Queen Victoria has been endorsed by a great representative meeting at Mansion Hou3e. It was decided to appeal for funds throughout the Empire. The King wrote to the Lord Mayer promising a thousand guineas. He ap« proved of the proposed site and hoped a lasting and worthy memorial of the great Queen would be erected.
The Rothschilds subscribed two thousand.
Sir Thoma 3 Lifton and Sir John B'.undell Maple, a thousand guineas each. Salisbury and Bannerman being indisposed were unable to attend the Mansion House mooting relative to the Queen's statue.
Eloquent eulogies on the lato Queen were pronounced by Balfour, Chamberlain the Duke of Norfolk, and Harcourt. Chamberlain expressed the hope that apart front merely local memorials all the colonics would he associated with the Imperial tribute.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 March 1901, Page 3
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161QUEEN VICTORIA'S MONUMENT. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 28 March 1901, Page 3
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