THE PROGRESS TO PADDINGTON.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 843, 24 May 1910, Page 3

THE PROGRESS TO PADDINGTON.

JOURNEY TO WINDSOR

THE KING’S CHARGER AND TERRIER. LONDON, May 20. Whi'ii the gun carriage .started the head of llio procession mis a mile and a mm away in Piccadilly. -\' distinguished group, including Mr Asquith. Lord Crewe and other Ministers, ami Lord Roseherv, witnessed the Royalties’ arrival at the porch of Westminster Hull. , . .... . Queen Alexandra wore the brilliant Jewel of I h*' Garter. There was an immense and reverential silence along Ihe entire route. The crowd was deeply loilehed by Hie sigh of the riderless charger followed by a stalwart Highlander, in the Royal Stuart tartan, leading the King's terrier Caesar. The progress to Paddington was absolutely without, a hitch. K jug George and the Monarch* bowed their heads as tiie Guardsmen reverently transferred the coffin to the train, 'the massed bands _ playing the funeral inarch from “Saul" meanwhile. King Georgo and most of tho Royalties travelled in a saloon car next to the mortuary carriage. The train was the one used for Queen Victoria’s funeral. The engine was heavily draped with purple and white. Ten iion-Commissioned Grenadiers, wherein King Edward was Liout.-Colonel, helped to carry tho casket to tho train. There wore nine saloons upholstered in purple draperies and crepe. The coflin was in the first saloon in an open purple draped catafalque guarded by Grenadiers as at Ihe lying in Slate.