Illness of the King.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 224, 3 July 1902, Page 1

Illness of the King.

London, June 29. The King on Saturday was transferred to a wheeled couch. He remains in the best of spirits. June 80. The King’s progress towards recovery is uninterrupted. The doctors in the evening decided that a bulletin was unnecessary until to-day, tbeteafter one will be .issued at 7 o’clock in the evening. The Prince of Wales has ordered the preparations for illuminating Marlborough House to remain in position. Public bodies and private citizens are preparing to illuminate when the King is fully out of danger. Additional royalty guests have departed. King Edward dictated a letter of .regret, thanking the guests for the honour tendered him by their visit. At King Edward’s command the presentation of representatives from India at the Prince of Wales* reception at the Indian Office on the 4th will be considered equivalent to presentation to the King. Intercessory services were held yesterday by all denominations. It is estimated that the railway companies lose £1,000,000 by the postponement of the Coronation. A meeting of Transvaalers and their families at Balmoral telegraphed their sympathy and loyally to King Edward and Queen Alexandra.

Viscount Ccanborne, as chairman of the bonfires Committee, suggests lighting them to-night, as the King is rapidly improving. Kim? Edward hate telegraphed his deep regret at the Elbe collision, and expressed his warm appreciation of Lieutenant Rosenstock von Rhonenek’s last command before he was drowned. The Kaiser replied that he was deeply touched, and that every officer and man were profoundly sensible of the fact that the first act of their new Admiral was the sending of a message so kindly worded. “We join your fleet in prayers for your complete restoration to health.” The Grand Duke of Hesse, the Duke of Saxe-Cobnrg, Lord Lands* downe, the officers of the colonial contingents, the wives of the several Premiers, the Indian Princes, the paramount chief of Barotseland, and the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London attended tit. Paul’s, The preacher declared the lesson to be learned from the King’s illness was a Divine warning to think less of the outward symbols of Imperial splendour and more of the inner life which wasabove all. Our Lord had given all a true national strength, and when the Coronation came it ought to become an act of profound national reverence. Prayer in the countless churches and chapels and on the lips of the man in the street was an instructive sign of the recognition of God. Addressing Britain’s sons from over eea<, the preacher urged them to carry into the unknown future the best heritage of our past. The Queen and other Royalties will attend the review of colonial troop*. The Papal Envoy to the Coronation conducted a notable service of special prayer for the recovery of the King at Brompton (hatory, in the presence of the leading Catholics of the Empire. Queen Alexandra, in farewelling the guests, te-invited the deputation of the Danish Hussar Regiment at the end of September for the Coronation.

The public anxiety ia disappearing. The were no crowds at the Palace to-night. The Stock Exchange has reopened very firm. If his health will permit the King will witness the colonials march past alter the review ; also the Indians whom the Prince of Wales reviews in the Queen’s presence on Wednesday. It is officially notified that the King sees no correspondence, and is not approached on matter* if State business, buthe has occasional short interviews with his children. The wound is of considerable depth, and if dressed twice daily from the bottom, as it is essential that it should heal from that direction. The dressing causes considerable pain, which is borne , with great fortitude. Sir Henry Laking, Sir T. Barlow, and Sir F. Treves, Surgeons and Physicians to the King, have not left the Palace since the operation. A bulletin issued at 7.40 p.m. stated that the King passed a fairly comfortable day, and there is less discomfort from the wound. July 1.

The Prince of Wales was last evening satisfied that the King i* doing remarkably well. After some hours on a couch Hie Majesty retired to bed at 8,30, refreshed by the. change. ' ■ ' , A rocket lent up from the wheel at Earl’s Court rose 10C0 feet, and was the signal for 2000 bonfires to be lighted.

The colonials after the review to-day will be invited to prolong their stay. This is interpreted to mean that the Coronation is likely to take place earlier than wag anticipated, Melbourne, June 30. The Governor-General has re* ceived a cable message from Mr Chamberlain expressing the thanks of the Queen and Royal Family for Australian sympathy in connection with the King’s illness. Sir J. G. Ward sent us the following telegram on Tuesday morning; —“ I have received the following cable from Mr Seddon, dated 1 p.m., June 3rd ; ‘His Majesty the King slept well. Dressing the wound gives much distress. There are no bad symptoms of any kind.’ ”