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THE WEDDING OF THE KAISER'S SON,

FORTY ROYAL PRINCES AND PRINCESSES AS GUESTS.

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Berlin, October 23rd. The wedding of Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of the German Emperor, to Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein was celebrated this afternoon with all the traditional pomp and ceremony of the German Court.

Six hundred invited guests were present, including more than forty royal princes and princesses, representing for the most part the reigning families of the smaller German States. There was no sinta proosssion through the streets. Everything connected with the wedding took place within the walls of the Imperial

Palace, the Kaiser's city residence,

Crowds assembled in the Unter den Linden to watch the wedding guests drive to the palace,

The bride, bridegroom

the Emperor and Empress, the bride's parents, the Duke and Duchess Frederick Ferdinand of Schleswig- Holstein, and the other nearest relatives of the young couple assembled in one of the ceremonia rooms on the second Boor of the palace to attend the civil ceremony required by German law.

The Minister of the Imparial Household, Count Eulenburg.performed the civil cert- mony, which was quite brief The Notary of the Imperial Household read the terms of the marriage contract." Count Eulenburg having sked the bride and bridegroom in- dividually whether they were willing to take one another as man and wife, then said

In the name of the house laws of the family of Hohenzollern, and in the name of the civil law of the German Empire I declare yon to be wedded in matrimony."

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"At the conclusion of the civil ceremony,au officer of the Guards appeared, accompanied by two soldiers and two officials of the trossary of the imperial household.

EXPRESSIONS OF SIMPATHY

AT SHANGHAI

In the Shanghai Courts of law the death of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor called forth expressions of sympathy, with China in her double loss. At H.B.M.'» Rupreme Court sympathy was expressed by the adjournment of the Court for the trial of”, Civil Cases of the motion of Mr, Douglas the senior member of the For present.

His Lordship (Mr. A. B. Vincent) said he wasn' glad Mr. Douglas, as the senior member of the Bar present, had alluded to the sad occurrence in the manner he had. They have all heard of the sad ocenirence with the greatest regret and as a mark of respect and an expression of sympathy with the Chinese people in their loss, to-morrow the Court will stand adjourned until to-mo At ten o'clock.

A criminal case had been set down for trist in H.B.M. Supreme Court but before the trial made to the death of the Emperor and Emprese was proceeded with sympathetic references were Downger by the Crown Advocate and by Mre F.S.A. Bourne, ting Judgo.

On his Lordship taking his seat spou the bench at 10 am. Mr. H. P. Wilkinson (Crown advocate) spoke as follows:-It is with deep regret that we learn of the death of the raler of

this Empire. I submit, my Lord, that the highest mark of respect this Court can pay at the moment is for it to proceed with tho which subjects of China are concerned. administration of justice, especially in a case in

His Lordship then rose to his feet and spoke. as follows, all others present in court upstanding: Mr. Crown Advocate. It should be recorded that this Court hears with the deepent regret of the death of the rulers of this country. If this had been a siyfi esse the court would have adjourned as a mark of respect, but I agres with you it would be better to go on with the work of the Court.

The business of the Court was then proceeded with.

MR. DAVID LANDALE EXPRESSES KYMPATHY. At the annual distribution of prizes of the S.V.C, at the Town Hall Mr. David Lundale, Chairman of the Council, made reference to the death of the Emperor and Empress Dowager One of the officiais carried on a cushion the in the following terms 1- Ladies and Gentleman; grown of the princesses of the Prussian ruling-Bofors we begin the business of this evening I houses consisting of six hoops of diamonds lined wo

would like to express on

behalf of this Com with red velvet. After it had been shown to manity our sympathy with the Chinese Nation those present the crown was carried into the

in the loss they have sustained by the death of adjoining anteroom, called the Chinese Cabinet. their angust Majesties the Empress Dowager and Princess Alexandra Victoria, attended by her the Emperor. Although the health, of His Im.. ladies, walked into this chamber to be crowned perial Majesty for many years past has not been according to aapiant muston

such as would admit of his taking active part in Public Affairs, we must none the less condole with his loyal subjects in the loss of their Sovereign. I am sure it is the sincere hope of all of us that his successor will be a strong and just ruler (Hear hear.) By the death of Her. Majesty, the Empress. Dowager, a great personality has passed away; the will ever bo remembered for her strength of purpose, firmness in adversity, and in later years the enlightenment she is shown in dealing with affairs of state.

The German Empress, after embracing and kissing

her som

m's bride, led her to a gilded toilet table, inlaid with costly morale, that once belong. ed to Queen Tromise, the mother of Emperor William I. The bride took her sest in front of the table, and the Empress placed the crown on her head, the act symbolising Princess Alexandra Victoria's admittance to the Prussian royal family.

The bride were this crown from the beginning of the ceremonies until she left the palace to night.

Immediately the Princess arose with the crown

ou her head, a signal was given from within the AMERICAN PRINCESS TROUSSEAU. palace, and the bells in all the churches in Berlin were rung.

Meanwhile, the wedding guests arrived in the chapel, situated under the great dome of the paince. The chapel, which is octagonal, accom mollated to-day 600 guests. Apart from all royal personnages there wire Ambasadors, Ministers and other members of the Diplomatic Corps in Berlin, high military, naval, and civil officials, knights of the Order of the Black Eagle, a deputation from regiments of the German army, and distinguished representatives of German nobility.

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The trousseau which is being prepared for Miss Elkins for her marriage with the Duke of the Abruzzi is described as the most magnit cent ever possessed by an American bride.

Louise and Co., of New York, have been engaged for three months on the work, which is proceeding without regard to cost, the inten tion being that Amerion's future Princess shall have dresses surpassing those of any European royalty.

The chief d'œuvre is a Court gown in ivory At a signal from the Emperor, the bridal satin in the Empire style with a Earenic lift,” procession left the Chinese Cabinet and proosed- | a small train in front."

ed to the chapel. It was headed by the Marshal The gown is trimmed with countless pearls,

of the Imperial Ceart, Prince Fuerstenberg carrying his staff of offior.

The bride and bridegroom walked arm arm, the bridegroom in military uniform and Princess Alexandra Victoris wearing a magní- floent white drese in the Directoire fashion, sumptuously embroidered; and a bridal wreath of myrtle and orange blossoms.

Trumpets wounded as the procession entered the chapel. The bridal party were received at the entrance by the clergy, beaded by the Court chaplain, Dr. Dryander, who conducted the bride and bridegrooms to their places in

front of the sitar.

The Emperor at at the right-hand side” of the altar and the Empress on the left, both fac ing the congregation in the chapel. The other royal guests eat clom behind the bridal pair.

There is no organ in the chapel, but a corps of trampeters and choir of men and boys

were posted high up in a circular gallery which runs round the side of the dome.

After Dr. Dryanderhad read the marriage ser- sice, the bridegroom pisced a gold ring engraved with the date of to-day a ceremony, on the third finger of the bride's right hami. Princess Victoria Alexandra placed a similar ring on the inger of her husband.

When Dr. Dryander had pronounced the Benediction a signal was given from the interior of the chapel, and a solute of thirty-six guns from the adjoining Pleasure Garden announced to the population of Berlin that the wedding ceremony was over.

WEDDING BANQUET.

The wedding banquet, held in the Hall of the Knights, was attended by none but royal per- HOT. Six noblemen occupying high positions at Court waited at table, according to ancient traditions.

The Emperor proposed the health of the young couple, and delivered an address to them.

Separata banquets for the remaining wed. ding guests took place in the adjoining kalls. After the banquet the guests reassembled in the White Hall for the torch dance, an old enstom of the Prussish Court, which

costing in themselves a fortune. These are used as a compliment to Queen Margherita, who is a connoisseur of pearls.

The wedding dress in of old satin trimmed with point lase in Josephine design.

Empire and Directoire styles are used almost exclusively for the bondoir and travelling dresses. There are twenty-two boudoir dresses, and an expert has spent two months searching Europe, and especially Italy, for the rarest lucea with which they are trimmed. The faces have boen specially chosen to represent the different periods correspondent with the design of the dresses.

There are thirty-three tailor-made dresses in various colours, in addition to morning and afternoon robes, riding and motoring custumes, and gowns anticipatory of every possible social

event.

A special feature of the lingerie is that every stitch is concealed by real Ines.

The principal innovation of the troussean is the Eugenie lift," which appears in several of the gowns.

The Cental News Rozas correspondent reports that the Italian cruiser Fieramosca has received orders to await the Duke of the Abruzzi at New York, and the cruiser Etruria will also be despatched to New York. The two cruisers will bring the Duke and his bride to Italy,

CHINA TEA IN GREAT BRITAIN.

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A Board of Trade return shows that, in the Line months ended September last, the con- increased by 70 per cent, over the quantity sumption of China tea in the United Kingdom consumed in the same period of 1905. This (save a Ceylon paper) is the most striking way the matter can be expressed, and our contempor sy proceeds-As our London correspondent

and others have explained, when common tess British manufacture go up, the cheap Ching teas are again taken for a time. The consump

China ten reached a very low point in 1906, and has shown an annual advance since. In India and in Ceylon common teas do not get good prices in 1909, and when China tes records FAR CATHAY concluded the wedding ceremonies.

The turchi dance is a kind of stately ninet, further advanes, it may then be neccessary to repented time after time. Noblemen in Court regard the competition more seriously. costumes, headed by the Marshal of the Im- perial Court, were drawn up in paire carrying farge

candles on silver plates and preceded by domestics in hvory. These noblemen, to the

The Calcutta Englishman learns, in con- music of a polonaise, approached the bridal nection with the disquieting news from Tibet, couple, bowed low before them, and then walked from an authoritative source that the Lames of round the great hall followed by the bride and the three State monasteries of Tibet, Sera Desping and Galian numbering about 13,000, disapproved of the desire of the Chinese Go-

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