JLate Advertisements DEATH OF HEE MAJESTY. PUBLIC OBSERVANCES AS TO MOURNING. RANFURLY, Governor, tfy Order in Council, at the Government .House at Wellington, this twenty -fourth day of ' Januaiy, 1901. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. HIS Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand having been advised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the lamented death of HER MOST I GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, and acting by, and with the advice and consent of the Execu tive Council of the said Colony, doth hereby enjoin as follows upon Her late Majesty's lovin^-and lamenting subjects in the said colony in token of their grief and sorrow for the great loss the Empire has sustained :— 1. All Ministers of religion and all congregations are invited on Sunday next, the twenty-seventh instant, and also on the day appointed for the funeral of Her Lady Majesty to hold solemn services of public worship and mourning on behalf of the people of the colony. 2. The New Zealand Ensign, with a scarf of crepe attached to the flag staff, one foot above the flag, shall be displayed at half mast" on all public buildings in the colony till sunset each day and until sunset of the day ap pointed for the funeral. 3. All ships in the various harbours of the colony are invite! to display their Ensigns at half mast each day until, and including the day of tho funeral. 4. All officers of the Government are enjoined to wear mourning until further notified, and all other subjects of Her Late Majesty are requested to do the same in such manner as their loyalty and feeling directs. 5. And generally until after the day of the funeral it is enjoined that all festivities of a public nature be sus j>ended, and that on that day all places of business and public enter tainment be closed. J. H. MACALISTEE, Acting Clerk of the Executive Council. SALE BY AUCTION. ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, AT" 2 P.M. MESSRS MACKAY AND CO. Have been favoured with instructions from Mr J. Noble to sell on the above date the whole of his HOUSEHOLD FURNITUEE AND EFFECTS, At His Residence, Karangahake, Drawing Room Suite in Plush, Round and Oval Tables, Lino leums and Carpets, Gilt Top Touble Bedstead, Duchosse JL Jair, w.w. Stretchers, Tables, Chairs, Sofa, etc., etc. TERMS CASH.—NO RESERVE. 