"THE LAST POST."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 April 1913, Page 5

"THE LAST POST."

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(United Preu Auoei^tion—By JR«e« ttjc Telegraph—Copyright.)

FUNERAL OF LORD WOLSELEY. ENORMOUS CROWDS. (Received April 1, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 31. Enormous crowds witnessed FieldMarshal * Lord WoLseley's funeral, which took place in a dense yellow fog. It was a great pageant. iGruairds, Territorials, and National Reserves lined the route of the procession, which included five battalions of Guards, 60th Rifles, Black Watch, eight squadrons of cavalry, and detachments from forty regiments, as well as bluejackets and marines. Guns fired salutes at St. James's Park, as .the procession started, and when the body had been lowered into the grave. The pallbearers included Field-Mar-shal Lord Roberts, General Stir John French (Chief of the Imperial General Staff), Field-Marshal Lord Metliuen, Field-Manshal Lord Grenfell, Field-Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Geneaal Sir Neville Lyttelton, and -General Sir Archibald Hunter. There was a remarkable crowd at the service in St. Paul's Cathedral, including iHis Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught (representing the King), His Highness the Duke of Teck, and several Royal personages, the Prime Minister (Mr Asquitli), the Secretary of State for War (Colonel i Seely), other members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, diplomatists, Colonel Muirhead Collins (Secretary to Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia), and many military a.id naval officers. Th;-» Very Rev. Or Inge, Dean of ;3t. Paul's, conducted the ■service, which,, concluded with the hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and Dead March in '"Saul." The buaclters then sounded "The Last Post."