THE LATE PRINCE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3044, 19 January 1892, Page 2

THE LATE PRINCE.

IT XIVEI! SA L S Y M. P A T II Y THROUGHOUT KMPrRK. (BY EI.KO'IHIC TELKCKM'H—COI'YIttGIir). London, January 10. Tin: remains of the Duke of Clarence :md Avondale will arrive at Windsor on Tuesday, and the funeral will take place on Wednesday with full military honours. Masonic emblems have been placed on the codin. Demonstrations ot sympathy and mourning are universal throughout the Empire. The comments of the French press note the national loyalty displayed. The Princess of Wales is very ill, requiring the services of a physician. His Holiness the Pope sent a message of condolence. The Miners' Federation rejected a motion that a message of condolence be sent to Her Majesty. Two thousand c illed at Marlborough House on Thursday, expressing sympathy with tlio Prince and Princess of Wales. A number of Princes, including Prince Tlenry of Prussia with a detachment of the Blucher Hussars, and the Grand Duke Georsje (second son of the Czar) will attend tlie funeral. Memorial services will bo held in St. Paul's Cathedral simultaneously with the funeral.

Special prayers of the congregations in churches and chapels will be asked on Sunday forth" Prince and Princess of Wales and the Princess Mary of Took.

Tlio Agents-General of Canada, Australasia, and Africa, have forwarded to the Prince and Princess of Wales iiniossngo expressing sympathy, also a wreath suitably inscribed to bo placed on the coffin. The Court will go into full mourning until the sth February, and into halfmourning from then until the 2<ith February. The Queen has warmly acknowledged the sympathetic message from tlio President of France and Foreign Courts. Shu proceeds to Windsor on Tuesday. Mr Gladstone, who is absent at Riviera, sent to the Prince and Princess of Wales a long telegram expressing sympathy. The Printers Mary announces that she is deeply touched at the tender sympathy expressed. January 17. The tenth Hussars, of which the Lite Duke of Clarence and Avondale was major, will escort the body oil its removal from Sandringham to Windsor. Her Majesty the Queen will attend the funeral if permitted by her medical advisers. Sydney, January 17._ Throughout the whole of the colonics special services were held in the churches as a mark of respect to the late Duke of Clarence and Avoudalo, and the majority of the buildings were draped in black. Melbourne, January 10. The day fixed for the funeral of the Duke of Clarence will be declared a day of general mourning. "Wellington, Night. At all the churches yesterday the services and sermons bore the impress of mourning, which the deaths of the Dake of Clarence and Cardinal Manning had evoked. Most solemn services wore held at St. Mark's, where during the wo ok the congregation had also tc deplore the death of their organist, Mr TLirdwieh. The church was draped in black, and the organ was festooned witli tlower?. At all the churches, without distinction of creed, Cardinal Manning's death was deplored as the lo.iS of a great Englishman.