PAPAL ELECTION.
IMPRESSIVE SCENES. REPORT ON FIRST BALLOT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCTATJ'"’ ROSIE, February 3. In connection with the Papal conclave for the election of a successor to Benedict XV., the enclosure of the Cardinals was a picturesque ceremony. There were many ladies and members of the Roman Nobility, magnificently robed, and also representatives of the Italian Catholic diplomatists, assembled at the Sala 'Regia where the Palatine Guard and Noble Guard were on duty. Thence the assemblage passed on to the Pauline Chapel, where they watched he Cardinals’ procession in the Sistine Chapel. There a glimpse through the doorway showed that each Cardinal had a throne, each with voting slips on the desk in front. '1 '
The Cardinals appeared mostly to be wearing violet mantles and red birettas.
Headed by Cardinal Cincenzo Yannutelli, with Cardinal Logue (Ireland) following, there were Cardinal Gasquet (England), in hjs black Benedicine mantle, followed by two Dominion Cardinals.
Other notable figures were Cardinals Boggialo (Italy), Merry del Val (exPapal Secretary), Merrier (Belgium), and Kawowski (Poland). The last-nam-ed is a man of great height, and was another impressive personage. After the intoning of “Veni Creator,” the procession ,of Cardinals left the Pauline Chapel, and went to the Sistine Chapel. As they vanished, the order. “Exeunt Omnes!” was given. All the spectators then retired, leaving the Cardinals and their staffs to their work of the- election.
When the Cardinals will next be seen it will be surrounding the new Pope. Meanwhile a huge crowd of tourists and others bad gathered in the square.
THE BALLOTS,
The first Papal Ballot was resultless. When for a second time a column of black smoke ascended from the Sistine at five o’clock it told the crowd that the second ballot had failed to be derisive. Reports say that the second vote showed Cardinal La. Fontaine to be gaining ground.
STILL RESULTLESS. Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ROME, February 4. The third and fourth Papal ballots were resultless.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1922, Page 2
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