The national bereavement has quite over shadowed the recent proceedingscelebrating the birth of a new Di nin the South Pacific. The news of the Great White Queen's decease reached here about 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the 23rd, being officially confirmed a few hours Jater by a dispatch from the Governor-General. The city immediately went into mourning, Go-sornment offices were closed, and flags half-masted on all the shipping in port. Just before sunset a funeral salute of 82 guns was fired from the Domain Battery; and theatres and all places of amusement closed their doors for the evening. Since the 24th instant, however, the Eastern cable has been interrupted, and in consequence no intimation has reached us as to what day is to he set part as the one of national mourning. January 28h, usually observed jay. being the anniversary of the Foundation Day of the Star", will not ti year he s" observed, and the great ALN. A. Fete usually held on this date has been indefinitely postponed.
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