The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-19
The Queens Death
News in New
Zealand.
AUCKLAND PUTSON
DEEP MOURNING
Mining Shares Sent Down by the
Sad Tidings---The King
Proclaimed.

| AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Feb. g.
The news of the death of our beloved
Queen. Victoria the Good. as our late
sovereign is most frequently referred to,
came a great shock TO the people OF
New Zealand about noon on January q.
In Auckland the first news was spread
Flags were Immediately run up TO half
mast, and in a few minutes the whole
city was seen to be in mourning Many
business places at once closed their doors,
and business generally was suspended
for the afternoon. Cathedral and church
bells were slowly tolled, and Royal sa-
lutte of 101 guns was fired by the perma-
nent artillery. All amusements arranged
for the evening were postponed. The fol-
lowing day. by direction of the Acting
Premier, the Hon. j. G. Ward, was OBJ
served as a day OF mourning through
out the colony. Flags were displayed
half-mast high everywhere, most places
of business were draped in black. and
many citizens wore mourning tokens Ex-
pressions of regret were universal, and
the sympathy of the colony and of the
community was conveyed to the Royal
family by cable through His Excelency
the Governor. On the Sunday following
in memoriam services were held in all
churches, and places of worship were
mostly .draped iras black. The day of the
funeral ceremony was one never TO be
forgotten. Throughout the colony all
business. both public and private, was
entirely suspended, and there was hardly
a public building or a building Of any
kind that did not bear some token of
mourning. individually, the people
nourned as for the loss of one dear to
each of them, and the public demonstra-
tons made here and elsewhere were of
the most solemn and impressive charac-
ter The gathering of Auckland citizens
was enormous, and the ceremony was of
a most thoroughly representative char
acter It included an immense process
sion through the town 10 the Albert
Park, where five ladies placed wreaths
at the foot of the late Queens statue as
a mourning tribute of the people of
Auckland. Children representing many
of the public schools and private citi-
zens also deposited at the foot of the
statue wreaths, some of which were very
beautiful
New Zealand despatched her Sixth
Contingent for South Africa from Auck-
land by the S. S. Cornwall on the 30th
ult- But for the fact that the colony
was in mourning for the death of Queen
Victoria, they would have had a great
send-off, but there was, nevertheless, an
immense public gathering. From all we
know of them-we speak more particu-
larry of the Auckland detachment, which
has been drawn from the community
here and trained at our doors-this latest
sent contribution of colonials is as full of
promise as anything the colony has de-
spatched. Taken all around, the Auck-
landers of the Sixth are perhaps the fit
test and smartest that have left US.
Whatever the fortune of war may be, or
wherever it may lead them, they carry
with them our warmest wishes; and we
shall certainly think of them no less
kindly because the sad circumstances OF
the hour prevented our expressing these
wishes as we would have liked to do.
Aucklanders on January Is witnessed
and participated in the event of life
time-the proclamation of a great sover-
eign. The national sorrow at the death
OF the Queen gave place for the day to
rejoicing at the accession of a new King,
and for the time being all signs of
mourning We're put aside. The doleful
streamers of Grape disappeared from
fiagstafTs and doors, and flags were
hoisted mast-high on buildings and ship
ping. Business people everywhere sus-
pended work for an hour or two, to do
Honor TO the King while the proclamation
was being read. The spectators formed
a solid mass from the doors Of the Free
Library across the street and right down
to Queen street All the public bodies
of Auckland Were well represented at
the proceedings and the Consuls of for
eign countries and a number of volun-
teer officers in uniform were conspicu-
1 Gus.
Since last mail business on the Ex-
change has been somewhat disorganized
los Of -,
brokers closed their offices for several
days. Under such circumstances values
of several stocks declined, as the mar
ket lost the buoyancy with which the
year commenced SO favorably. Waihi
shares are, however. in request at Ell
Notwithstanding the issue of the new
shares at s10, and holders ask s12 Wal
tekauri shares are easier, the buying
price being about 30s, while Crowns have
tsteady demand at 13s, and Tahsmans a,
19s Cd The official return of gold en-
tered for export for the year 1900 is 81,
COZ. decrease of e73,571 as compared
with the export for the previous twelve
months. Auckland however, heads the
list with 96G5.3 eS, Otago second with
l3521. 62s, and West Coast third with f2s5,-
73S. The total export of gold from
Auckland mines now amounts to ae,s17.-
SIS. Comparatively few returns have
been received from Auckland mines dur
ing the past three weeks Tribune par.
ties in the May Queen mine, however
had satisfactory return of G603 from
50 tons OF ore. including picked stone. A
slightly better feeling exists at tbs
Thames now. owing to the fact that tbs
Drainage Board has resumed pumping
New Four-in-Hand. Coromandel com.
pany. crushed 80 tons of ore for yield
Of 94i9 and the directors declared g
third dividend of three pence per share
49,