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The news of the Queen Mother'a denth was officially received here by wireless, whilst H. R. H. Prince) George, serving aboard H. M. S. Hawkins, was notified of the sad occurrence by a private cable from
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1925,
THE QUEEN MOTHER'S DEATH.
Funeral Service on Friday,
"Alexandra the well-beloved," "Alexandra the Beautiful are among the epithets applied by the newspapers to, the columns at memoirs and articles paying tributes to the Queen Mother whose death kas plunged the Empire into sorrow.
This morning's papers all appear with mourning borders and are profase with pictures illustrative of the main incidents in Queen Alexandra's Ife.
Japan's Terbate.
Tokyo, November 21.
his father, I. M. King George. Telegrams of condolence in the King's bereavement arc-pouring On Saturday, a Government Gazette in from all parts of the world, President Coolidge's being among the Extraordinary was issued stating: first.--Reater. "With, deepest geef, the Governor) hes to announce that Her Majesty Queen Alexandra passed away about 5 pm, on the 20th Novem- bur, 1925." Ali naval ships in port are flying their flags at half-mast. and commencing at noon yesterday |forty minute-guns were red fron-
H. M. S. Durban.
The Court Eus, ordered. mourning for eight days for Queen Alexandra's death. Baron Shidehara conveyed. condolence to tho British Ambassador, Sir Charles Eliot, this morning.--Neuter.
Funeral Arrangements.
London, November 21.
The Lord Chamberlain announces that the first part of the funeral service will be held at 11.50 am. on Friday, November 27, at West- minster Abbey.--Reuter,
London, November 22.
In consequence of the Royal bereavement, various local events! have been postponed, these inclu?-| ing the St. Andrew's Hall, whichi was due to take place on Friday, as well as the practice dance which!
The remains of Queen Alexandra will be removed to London on: bad been arranged for to-morrow Thursday, where they, will be deposited in the Chapel Royal at St. evening. In most of the churches, James' palace until the service at the Abbey on Friday. The public Catholic will be admitted after the service until the evening, whon the coffin. including the Roman Cathédrai, reference was yesterday will be removed to Windsor for committal on Saturday. made to the passing of the Queen]
It is officially announced that there will be two months full Court Mother.
mourning and a month of half mourning-Reuter-
UNION CHURCH.
WILD CREATURES OF BRITAIN.
Vanishing Mammals.
The wild animals of Brituimare wilder than the wild animals of
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie pra terday morning referred to the
to the distress of fishermen, in death of the late Queen Alexandru
the Wash; and now everyone as having occasioned a sense of
knows all about them. But the personal loss among all, classes
west remains the chief haunt of of society. No one present, he said
most of the raror and shiort at Union Church, could remember a
mammala. There are still wild' time when her nume had not been:
cats in Wales. The badger is a household ward, and a word al-
common beast in Pembrokeshire. ways spoken with love and admira-}
Rodents found'nowhere else live) tion. He himself remembered as a)
on Skomer and Skecum. The scals child the thatched cottage of an old any country in the world, so a play continually round St. David's great tumer said to me the other | Head. Every Bubbling little peasant woman in the highlands day, writes "B.T:" in the Obserrer, stream has its otters, and, by the whose tenant exhibited with pride Fear of man is a condition of their same token its trout too. If the pair of stocking which "The existence. The thought is not thore is to be a mammal sanc- Princess" had taken
out of her altogether, pleasant, especially to tuary, it must be in the west or hands and partly knitted whilst those who are closely acquainted north-and we need sanctuaries chatting familiarly by her fireside with animals in captivity. There in both. Throughout the while countryside are some startling examples of We cannot, of course, in Britain around the Royal summer house she the truth of the assertion though fido what animal lovers have done was beloved by every creature, and happily it has many exceptions, at Yellowstone Park or Banff or in the more public ways of life the It is difficult, almost to the point Nairobi, though the Duko of game simple and engaging qualities of impossibility; to tamo or keep Bedford's Park is a very good drew forth a like response.
in captivity the fox, the otter or limitation. Indeed, in some re- For over three score years wild cat, if they are not as Doc-spects: it is bettor. Did anyone had made her house tor Johnson advised in reference ever see a more stirring spectacle only in our country but to Scotsinen caught young; the than the gallop of his herd of in the hearts of its people. young, on the other hand, grow wapiti up to the slight fences that It was a rare and long record delightfully fond of their captors, look as if they were no defence of love and good works and now even of captivity itself, if they at all? Andlovan from Canada that she rested from her labours are found before their parents men.came to Whbars for a sup- her works would follow her. i have taught them shyness, The ply of yuks! But in spite of such happened, Mr. Muconachie canost delightful pet of all isthe an example, cannot spare tinued, that the day had been an-young after, though the otter that thousands of acres for the teach- pointed for their hospital collec-as grown old' in freedom is shy ing of domesticity to wild sheep tions. Queen Alexandra's deep and furtive beyond any boast of and deer and bears and such On the plaguey wildfowl." concern for hospital work had been the field. Again, the moose and
caribou of North America and otherhand,,we do, possess islanda of incalculable value to that Newfoundland are tamecretares almost valuelues, except that characteristic expression of Chris- tian charity, and it was certain in comparison with red deer of they serve as home for creatures
Scotland and those gaire, red of the wild that she who had passed away would deer, as I saw them in New Zea The plou for the conversion of value far above the most eloquent land, have comparatively, little one of these istands, with perhaps | utterances a generous response to fear of man.
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At the close of the service the Funeral March was played, the con. gregation standing.
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the homely practical appeal which The young of our red squirrels sanctuary is promoted at the gave an immediate opportunity of are nearly perfect as pets. They moment by a succession of im- showing an esteen which was more treat their captors. as familiarlymediate. throats against soveral than "words, idle words."
as trees, gambof about their species of our mammals. A cam- Mr, Macouachie also referred to shoulders, forage in their pockets, ||paign is proposed against the seals! the recent death of Dr. Bontfield. and play pranks to order. The in the Wash. Otters are hunted a former pastor of the church and older squirrel singularly shy, directly they make their appen- | for many years subsequently the is terrified of man, and certain rance in a new haunt; Tha.red distinguished representative of the that he is one of his worst enemies.squirrel appears to be vanishing Bible Society in China.
It must be confessed that all these from many of its favourite. of old. The badger mammals huxe their justification haunts The armine and the polecat are is unpopular wherever the fox is! as good as exterminated. Per-bunted Such a far western sane- haps the rarest wild animal eft tury would servealso for the much- is the entomo say it is extinct, needed preservation of the raror hut not long since a young wild, butterflies, some chiefly found cat was caught in the west, and in the west, and for the multipli with great care nursed into health cation of some birds, notably the Mr. G. K. Oliver, the organist, at the Zoo. The other day it died, raven, the chough if it can be in- played the Dead March during the to the great grief of the koopars; duced to return the peregrime, service, which was attended by ajand an autospy revealed that and perhaps the corneruke. The large congregation.
death was due to a thrust from a suggestion is not.new; but each spectator's stick. The hunter's year it becomes more urgent that impluse to attack any wild animal something should be done. And is irrepressible, even, it seems, in what a delight it would be to
naturalists if they could have thei Regent's Park.
ST. ANDREW'S, KOWLOON. Reference was also made by the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, at St. An-
drew's, Kowloon.
Referring to the and loss which has befallen the British Empire, the Mr. Lindsay said that during the week one had been called Home who since her residence in! Since this is so, it is forced on opportunity to wander and ob- England had been respected and us if we would preserve our fow serve over some really wild and beloved by all. The feelings of St. wild mammals to give them sanc-spacious zoo, set in a half-sandy tuary. The coast is littered with and rocky cave, to watch the Andrew's were only those of thank-bird sanctuaries. Whole islands nest on the high cliff, have free- fulness to God for the nobility of and promontories are given up to dom to hunt for the rare- rodonta character and purity of the life of their preservation. Paid watchers that live at the roots of the heat- the Queen Mother. Throughout protect them. Every garden is her, and in the soft air of those her long life of 80 years, she had sanctuary; and Loudon shares wild and preciptions places feel Ilved to prosper the highest in-the privilago of giving protection the meaning of the mystery of terests of the people and to proto birds with the wilder parts of the Fortunate Islands that word mote all good works. "Our sym-the country. One reason, perhaps, over sought in the west from the pathy," concluded the Rev. Lind-why the birds have been presory-days of the first explorers. say, "goes out to His Majesty, the ed and the mummels neglected, King and to all the Royal Family if not killed off, is that the south In their hour of bereavement."
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and east, which are the paradisos.
Alderman Charles Wain,
of birds, are not London, while Dorby's oldest_councillor, has the paradises of the mammals died, aged 81. He began work at Four Chinese Communists who are the romoter west and north. seven on a canal boat.
SEALS ON WELSH COAST. wero arrosted in Paris in
It is astonishing how, even in connection with the raid on the the literature of the subject, the Chinese Legation on June 21;
A fow seconds after Mrs. last, when the Minister was tonishes people to be told that the hor room, a gas stove exploded, west is neglected. It still as Brooks, of Brixham, Devon, loft forced to sign an anti-foreign manifesto, were tried on Oct. 175oals have their home, and may blowing the door a distance of 15 bo Hoon any day, in the Welsh in the Correctional Court on a
caves; and the majority hardly chares of violation of domicile, realised the seal as a British pos- but were acquitted on the ground session till the other day a bolder Mary Kendrick has died, agei that they had not committed' violence. An order for their plonger swam up the Thames to 81, after 65 years in Ashby-de-la- London itself. Lately seals Zouch Workhouse.. Sho cost the expulsion from France has been have appeared in large numbers 'guardiana £3,000.
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