Queen Wilhelmina's Wedding

A FINE fcOENE IN A GREAT OHUBCH.

(By Julian Balpii, m the Daily Mail)

" The Haguk, Feb 7 ' Vive la reine !' • The Qifen, hur yah, honahS' Everywheie ehou'ing. laughing multitudes, overhang with the gayest colours. Everywhere sing ing, dancing, hilarious crowds, clown ing and frolicking at horseplay Until the orange son was gilding thfe east the crowds of the Hague danced hand m hand through the streets-to the music of bands of horns, or concertinas, always with a light electric background of women's laugh ter. It was pandemonium, bat a pan demonium of good nature and fun With the first blazing of the sun, which they say never fails the House of Orange, the populace danced singing to bed, and not long afterwards the beautiful rosy young Queea was aroused to partake of her chocolate, and to begin the elaborate prepara tions for the second! most important event of the lives of us all, be we great or hurnWe By 9 o'clock m the morning the streets were packed again, and by 10 a hundred cbouiand more shouting and singing people than had been here overnight, 'Locg live the Queen!' { Hurrah for Wilhelpnina and Henri!' «Vive the House of Orange, that efancla between as and absorption by Germany! t And now soldiers lined the streets and tried to keep the people ia order. As if that were possible where clowns m caps and bells ran frolicking around, and trooj 9 of girls m orange dresses danced along sieging songs that; got into our heads and made us giddy All watted hour after hoar, and at 11 o'clock we knew that the civil mar riage was taking place. It was cele brated at a quarter past 11 o'clock m the White Hall of the Queen's palace, where the Minister of Justice acted as Civil Recerder, He and the six necea smry witnesses were m fall Court costume According to Statute 161, which has not been altered la this case, the wife agrees to obey her husband. She nmst dwell with him and go with him wherever he deems it best for both to dwell. This last phrase, requiring her to go where he deems besfc, was not read today, and as to the rest of the provisions, it was understood that be ia only to receive the allowance fixed by the State, that she is to yield obedience to him as wife bat not as Qaeen, and that the clause obliging hjm to adminis ter her property does not apply m this case IDo you both agree and consent to this V the Recorder a*ked at the con clusion of the reading of the statues 1 Yes/ both answered eimu'taneously | The uigned the marriage contract, ■which was afterwards brought to the church and shown to the Court Predi kant, the Rev Dr Van de Vlier, after which it was added to the civil records of the State The scene m the Great Church was beautiful m the extreme, it was deli cately and artistically beautiful, and yet sufficiently gay to overcome the Bobeiing effect of one of the most anstere and plain cfiurohesin Christen dom. Half of the nava was cut off, and the partition was hidden by a bank of palms and HHpb. Thus a perfect square was left, with the pulpit on one side and the simple royal pew ia front, the other two aidei being made up of a section of pews, thu wooden front wall of each section being draped m pale blue silk, decked with golden lions rampant of Hol land Hetr, at 11 o'clock, came r great assembly of men m uniform and ladies m purple and mauve, with a touch of orange, and a glare of gold lace every where. The naval officers sat m one ' section, the army officers m another, j The foreign Ambassadors and Mink- j ters, with their beautifully gowned ladies, sat m the great central section. Count dress and evening dress were the unbroken rule. The heavy gold embroidered and epauletted coats of the men and the exquisite soft-coloured frocks of the ladies produced an ex quisite symphony of colour. Soon after 12 o'clock begon the pro cession from the palace, only five minutes distant, through the streets, and presently all the visiting royalties begun to file into the church. The men all m military uniforms and the women m costly gowns formed an im pressive and glarioaa spectacle. Dr Leyds, the handsomest man of the Diplomatic Corps, sat next but one to the British Minister. The royal bride and ducal groom came after all fcne others, both very pale and nervous. There may have been a faint tint m her cheeks, and | her bare arjis were red with the cold, j but Ms face wa3 like chalk. He wore the dress of a Dutch admiral, and ehe j was all m white, with orange flowers twined m her tiara of diamonds and a large bocquefc of white orchids, orange blossoms, and ferns. Never wan there a dress of simpler fashioning, yet it was superb. It was made of silver tissue over white siik, witb trimmings of panne. An enor mous veil fell from her tiara far behind her. Her mother, the Queen Dowager, wore a bodice and train of Parma violet with a skirt of ivory satin, pierced to show violet beneath if. When he finished the royal bride and hpr fiancee walked a step forward *nd stood by » double prie Dieo of carved oak with their right hands clasped while the service was read. Each re sponded m a clear voice, beard all over the church, The ring ws handed to the Duke upon a email golden salver, and he pnt the ring on the Queen's fin ger while tte Predikant continued the service, ending with a gift of a rery ordinary looking Bible to the Duke, now become the Prince Coneort. It was seen that he is three inches taller than she, though she is uncom monly tall When they turned to go back to their chairs it wss noticed that she was rosy red with blushes, white he etill kept his pallor. Two very short liymps were song by all m the church, the Qaeen end her husband joining with the teat. The singing having finished, the same procession^f the more illustrious person ,agp#'filed through the church and out into the space beyond the partition of palms and lilliesj where $c »ewly ipancte

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CO EN SACKS. OUR Next Shipment of fall size COKN* SACKS, ex ' Whangap!, 1 ib due at Lyttelton shortly, and we are now booking Orders for delivery, ex ship, Farmers will pleaee advise us of thetr requirements promptly, to save extra railage and handling. 286 FRIEDLANDER BRQg t Ltd. PEOPEETIES FOE SALE BS PBITATB TREATY, 1600 Acres Good Taaaock Country, price £2 10b 2000 Acres Good Tussock Country, ptlee £3 2000 Acres Good Tussock Country, price £3 1800 Acros Good Tasaock Country, price £3 1400 Acea Goad Tussock Connrry 5 price £3 170 Acres Good Tassock Oonntry, price £3 304 Acres Good Tassook Country, price £4 850 Acres Good Tussock Country, price £2 10s SOO Acres Parb Swamp Land, price £6 28 Acres, together with good house and stable, 3 miles from town 246 Acres Grand Wheat Land, 4 miles from Aahburton ■; easy terms 81 Acres First Class Wheat Land, 3| miles from Ashburton 500 Acres May field district,. with good buildings, well subdivided and watered 160 Acres Valetfca district 320 Acres near Tlnwald 140 Acree near Tlnwald 7600 Acres Lowdowns Land, neatly all ploaghable, price £2 45Q0 Acres Lowdonns Land, nearly all plonghable, price £2 5s Goodwill of Lease of 945 Acres, good Sheep Country, rent 3s, 11 years to run : 3GO Acres close to Tinwald 10 Acres ato AHenton; good House and Stable For full particulars apply to FBIEDLANDEK Bbos., Ltd To the Fanners OF THE ASHBURTON COUNTY. TTERE 18 A LIST of a few of the THINGS WE SELL :— Mohawk FpringTooHi Harrows, Line Harrows, Patent Lever Harrows, Turnip Grubber?, Hornsby'a &. Ranso.iWs Plough Shares (ail elK?B), Castor & Oyiindrine ( ile, m any quantity, Ooro Orushers, Bone Mill for Fowl Fancier?, Fxcelaior Horse Hoep, Garden Cultivators, Sterling Bicycles— (Chain or OhaialeßS, and all Accessories), AND ALSO THB McOORMIOK Reapers and Binders, Mowere, Daisy Reapers, Hay Rakes, and Knife Grinders. GALL & INSPECT BEFORE O MiRING ELSEWHERE. Morrow, Bassett 4 Go, Wills Street, Ashburton. M. PRIEST, Manager NICHOLAS & PICKFORD TTAVE Juat Landed, sx s.s. Wuimate their first shipment o SUMMER GOODS, INCLUDING Ladies' Croquet anrj Tennis Shoes, Gentleman's Tennis, Bowling, and Cricketing SHOES & BOOTS, In Canvas, Parratjatta, Glace Kia Buck Skin, and Russian Calf. Tbe Best Assortment ever Shown m Ashburton. intpection Invited. iCHQiAS & PiGKFQRD, BAST STREET, ■■ Hewlllyn mm, M.0.5.M., CERTIFICATED TEAOHER, Local Representative of the London College of Music and of the Musical International College, WILL Resume Musio Lessons (practical and theoretical) on FEBRUARY 4. Students prepared for any examination held In the Colony. Candidates presented, 107 average marks obtained 93 per eenb. MBS JOHNSTON KESUMED Teaobing cm TU 296h Jan. Havelock Stree i You oan depeDti oh ridding your children , warms with Wade's Worm Figi, the wo»derfui Worm ifVoniers—i«



A CARD, MESSRS STRIMCER CRESSWELI BARRISTERS & SOLICITORS, CHRISTCHURCH, HAVE OPENED A BRANCH OFFICI ab Mr Davison'b, West Street Ashburton, where they will attend everj THURSDAY and on other days whei necessary. They will be represented m Aehburton b] Mr J. Davison, who ia authorised to receivi Instructions on their behalf, and to whon communications may be addressed. Wo have various sums of money awaiticj Investment at lowest current rates. STRINGER &"~ORESSWELL, SOLICITORS, .: ■ OBRJSTCWRQH * ASHBTOXONt



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