The Late Mr Rhodes.

Manawatu Herald, 15 April 1902, Page 2

The Late Mr Rhodes.

4S-- - NATIONAL MEMORIAL SERVICE.

An impressive service was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral on the occasion of Mr Rhodes’s funeral. The King and the Prince of Wales were represented, and a. vast congregation attended, including the Lord Mayor and the Agents-General. Mr W. T. Stead, editor of the “Review of Reviews,” continued friendly to the last with the late Mr Rhodes, whose political will he now publishes. Mr Rhodes, he declares, aspired to create a great society, copied in regard to organisation from the Jesuits, with the view of securing vast bequests to be applied to the realisation of his main ideal of race-unity and the ultimate federation of England with America, and securing the government of the world in peace for all time. Meanwhile, Mr Rhodes recommends that freetrade be fought for, if necessary, by British retaliatory tariffs, destined to convert the present economic opponents of the scheme, including America, into friepds. The documents Mr Rhodes has loft behind are, says Mr Stead, idealistic beyond comprehension. SCENE AT THE MATOPPOS. There was a picturesque procession along the hills and gorges to Mr Rhodes’s grave, which had been cut in the rock on the summit of a steep kopje.. The coffin was drawn to the grave by twelve oxen. The Bishop of Mashonaland consecrated the grave and officiated at the burial, which was witnessed by'a thousand whites and two thousand natives.