THE LATE KING.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 May 1910, Page 3

THE LATE KING.

STATUE FOR EDWARD VII. IN ADELAIDE. [BY KLRCTKIO TEIiEOIIAPU--COPTRIOHT.] [.Pill PRKSB ASaOPUTWN.J (Received This Day, 8.40 a.m.) ADELAIDE. This Day. _ At a meeting of the City Comnoil, tho Mayor iiinuouincod tha.t owing to tho dleatli of King Edward, the civic bamqueit would bo abandoned, and. that instead the city would subscribe another £o()0 -towards erecting a statue, to King Edward in Adelaide. Other subscriptions and the £200 voted by tho Council already made tho fund £3800. (Received Tin's Day, fl.o a.m.; LONDON, May 2». King Ceorge V. ia sending to tho dominions messages similar to tibat addressed to 'the British people.

£70,000 OF WREATHS. k'ATS ICR'S GOOD-W.I ijt i. (Reraral This Dav. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. Thousands of persons airo visiting St. George's clvapel to iinspeoib tin* funomal trappings. Five thousand of tho wreaths cost seventy thousand pounds. Tho Quei'M Mother lias arranged to have every wreath photographed. Tho London County Council cancelled the half-holiday to-morrow. aiwl 1 instructed the liond teachers tn give addresses in the schools for half an lioiir on flip duties ol oit.izenshlip. Lord Meat.li tentatively suggests .Tune 28, the date of Onon.ii Victoria's Coronation, ns suitable for the adjourned Empire dwrnoiiptraitions. King Ocorsre, the Duke of v/nnninnglit, Princes Edward and Alliert, and tlie Dnlto and Dueliess of ■\ rfrvll -feok leave of tlie Kaiser at Victoria station. Great crowd® wevo prpsent.-

The TvnisfM", in a farewell -mr , * , p-ntre, wnrmlv nnnrecpfps the «>" ppre svrmw+hv shown bv the nub l ! in 'the n.n+ien'R li^.T<"ire.ment.