THE KING SERIOUSLY ILL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 383, 7 May 1910, Page 5

THE KING SERIOUSLY ILL

DISQUIETING STATEMENTS. LONDON PEOPLE VERY ANXIOUS. NATIONAL ANTHEM SUNG AT EVERY THEATRE. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Received May 0, 9.50 p.m. i London, May 0. King Edward attended the operas and theatres several times after his return from Biarritz. Frequent changes of weather caused a return of chest and throat trouble. He spent a week-end at Sandringham for the purpose of warding off the threatened attacks. Further trying weather this week resulted in .bronchitis. King Edward expressed a strong objection to causing public anxiety, and his indisposition was kept private until the impossibility of his meeting the Queea compelled a statement of the facts. The doctors yesterday urged him to keep to his room, giving an audience to Lord Islington (the new Premier of New Zealand) and to Sir Hercules Rodinson (the Queensland Agent-General), to whom he expressed great interest ana pleasure for the Queensland people's gift, and asked him to thank the Government for (presenting such a souvenir of Queensland's jubilee. Sir F. Laking and Sir James Reid slept at the Palace, .but further buile-, tins are considered unnecessary. The' next will he issued at mid-day. Special editions of the evening papers were published at 11 o'clock, and theatregoers were excited. Many hurried into the streets to learn further new?. At the close of performances at several theatres the National Anthem was sung. The carriageways around the Palace are. "deadened" with peat and cotton. HIS HEALTH CAUSES DEEP ANXIETY. , By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchureh, Last Night !A private cable received in town today from a highly authoritative source indicates that the King's health is in a precarious state. INTERGESSARY SERVICES. Christchureh, Last Night. A special intercessary service ior the recovery of the King is to be held at the Cathedral at mid-day to-morrow.