COURT NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3217, 13 May 1911, Page 7

COURT NEWS.

THE QUEEN MOTHER

The sale of the sermon “Recognition in Eternity,” published as a. booklet, still goes steadily on, and Queen Alexandra has sent cheques to be divided between the Gordon Boys’ Home and 1 the British Home for incurables, as the result of last year’s sales. “Recognition in Eternity” was the sermon preached by the late Canon, Fleming, after the death of the Duke of Clarence. Over one thousand seven hundred pounds have now been handed to charities by Queen Alexandra by its sale. THE KING’S GUESTS.

The King’s Belgian guests, the Belgian Burgo masters, with -a number of officials of the Brussels - Exhibition and representatives of the Belgian Press, were received! lately and welcomed at Buckingham Palace by the . King. King George expressed a strong wish

that they should all derive pleasure from their visit to England, and draw i still closer the bonds of friendship be- * tween the two countries. Belgium has had many troubles, and it is a relief to think that with the present ruler and his Consort, none of the troubles and

terrible scandals of past, days are likely to recur. The poor Louise of Co-burg, as she then was, found many sympathisers in England at the time when she was imprisoned in a private German asylum. Ac eldest daughter of - the late King, she was related to many imperial and royal families. Her mother was a Austrian archduchess, and her grandfather an. Austrian Emperor. The late. King of the Belgians and his wife lived unhappily together and the marriage of poor Princess Louise was at the command of her father. LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON.

Lady Constance Lytton, whose name has more than once been 1 prominently before the public in connection with the women’s suffrage question, is the sister of the present Earl of Lytton. He supports his sister in her views, and 1 . is one of the leading men in the House to try and help forward the Conciliation Bill. THE STATE COACH.

The State coach -which, was destroyed by fire was not that which the King and Queen used when they went to open Parliament recently } but it was a fine old carriage which was destroyed, so old indeed that it is not quite certain when it was made. THE DURBAR.

It has been settled that the Durbar at Delhi will be held soon after the arrival there of the King and Queen, and it is reported that they will reach there about the 9th December next. They will spend Christmas' Day and New Year’s Day in Calcutta, and be home again in time to open Parliament next year.