As soon as the late King breathed his last, the hatchment shown above was displayed at the gate of Buckingham Palace. The hatchment bus an interesting heraldic significance. It is a funeral escutcheon, and the arms of the late King appear in the lozenge-shaped frame, which is made of wood. Had the King been unmarried or a widower the whole field of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 236 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- The visitors to the lying-in-state at Westminster Hall to-day included Prince and Princess Alexander of Took. Viscount Morley ...
Article : 377 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The Earl [?] Selborne, the retiring High Commissioner for South Africa, has sailed with Lady Selborne from Capetown for London ...
Article : 208 wordsIn common with the rest of the British Empire, New South Wales will to-day pay tribute to the memory of Edward VII., whose body is to be removed from Westminster Hall, ...
Article : 482 wordsLONDON, Thursday.-- An explosion of dynamite has taken place in the Rural Guards Barracks at Pinar die Rio, in Cuba. Owing to racial disturbances, the dynamite ...
Article : 110 wordsLONDON, Thursday.-- Lieut.-General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell. whose retirement from the army was gazetted yesterday, states that be intends to decentralise the ...
Article : 86 wordsThe military arrangements for to-day's mourning include a special voluntary parade of the metropolitan troops, Senior Cadets, and Commonwealth naval forces, in Centennial Park, at ...
Article : 695 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- The arrivals to-day included the King of Portugal, the King of the Belgians, the King of Bulgaria, the Maharajah of Kapurthala, ...
Article : 352 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.-- The boy scouts movement, and its influence on churches and Sunday-schools, was discussed by the Presbyterian Assembly to-day. ...
Article : 320 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--German newspapers are publishing columns of observatory reports dealing with Halley's comet. The latest Berlin calculation states that ...
Article : 300 wordsLONDON, Thursday.-- London Mussulmans have arranged for a service of mourning which will be attended by Indian, Egyptian, and Turkish Mahomedans. ...
Article : 26 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--Captain Claude Champion de Crospigny, D.S.O., of the 2nd Life Guards, has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver ...
Article : 72 wordsBROKEN-HILL, Thursday.-- As seen at 5 o'clock" this morning. Halley's comet presented a remarkable appearance, due to its proximity to the earth. The head had not then risen ...
Article : 136 wordsLONDON, Thursday.-- An additional long list of messages of condolence received from overseas in connection with the death of King Edward bas been made public. ...
Article : 199 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Statistics show that the number of passengers carried on the railways throughout the United Kingdom during 1939 decreased to ...
Article : 45 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.--The manager of the Chief Electrical Telegraph Office, at 10.30 a.m., reported:--"Up to now no electrical disturbances, either in the shape of foreign currents, ...
Article : 64 wordsLONDON, Thursday.-- A commission has for some time past been busy in Constantinople classifying 360 boxes of Abdul Hamid's reports reports, which were seized when the ...
Article : 104 wordsMELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Not a glimpse was obtained in Melbourne of the passing of Halley's comet between the earth and sun. Telescopes were pointed, and the closest vigil was ...
Article : 135 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.--The District Court at St. Petersburg has sentenced M. Gutchkoyff, president of the Duma, to detention in a fortress for a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsHalley's comet made a grand appearance yesterday morning. Many thousands of Australians who had never before risen so early were rewarded with a very fine view of its tail. Shortly Mr. Wm. E. Raymond, of the Sydney Observatory, wrote yesterday:-- "The 11½ inch retractor telescope of the ...
Article : 74 wordsPERTH, Thursday.--The Government Astronomer, Mr. Cooke, reports:-- "Halley's comet today passed across the sun's disc, and we have passed through its tail. Unfortunately cloudy ...
Article : 80 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Several fine bowling feats were recorded in the First Class County matches, which were commenced on Monday and concluded to-day. ...
Article : 88 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- It has been decided that Tex Richards shall referee the fight for the world's championship between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- Lord Rosebery, speaking at the Royal Scottish Hospital, paid an eloquent tribute to the late King as the preserver of the peace ...
Article : 188 wordsSydney Observatory was used this afternoon in ...
Article : 426 wordsHOBART, Thursday.-- There were not the slightest traces of the earth having passed through the tail of Halley's comet. The weather throughout the day was beautifully fine, ...
Article : 43 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon.-- The German Emperor embarked to-day in the Imperial yacht Hobenzollern at Flushing, and will arrive in London to-morrow, to ...
Article : 62 wordsWELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.-- The observations in Christchurch Observatory to-day of the sun were resultless. A well defined sunspot was in evidence, but no trace of the comet ...
Article : 36 wordsThe churches throughout the State, with few exceptions, will held memorial services to-day for the late King. In Sydney in the cathedrals and chief plates of worship there will be special ...
Article : 390 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--A remarkable passive resistance movement has begun in England as a protest against the assessment of licensed properties. ...
Article : 51 wordsLONDON, Thursday.--The Montreal Chamber of Commerce has resolved to ask the Government not to consider the question of a reciprocity treaty with the United ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsLONDON, Wednesday Afternoon. By the King's special desire, arrangements have been made for Sir George Reid, Australian High Commissioner, to ride in a Royal ...
Article : 152 wordsWELLINGTON, Thursday.-- A second case of [?]ubenic plague is reported at Auckland. ...
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1883 - 1930), Fri 20 May 1910, Page 7
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