Show mPUS FONEfflL r t I Rhodes Obsequies Take Place in Capetown DEMONSTRATION MADE GREAT I Manifested in He Grief of Public MannerAll Business mar kable During the Exercises Suspended and All Public Buildings Draped in Mourning Body Is Started for BliodcsiaKatlvcc Arriving in Great Numbers at Bulwaya to Attend At-tend Exercises There o Town April Throughout the cope continuous strealn of people rning a TTorlns the body 5 conln Containing passed by the Jf Cwl Rhodes as it rested In Parlla 0f c funeral procession this hall The I1fternoon meat was most Imposing The draped with the colln which was Union Jack which belonged sacred Rhodes and with the tattered to Mr South Jag British Chartered of the pig tl3 Africa company which went through Masslkeasl was carried on the fight Cecil at carriage used at the the Jong gun Klmberley through the riece of The StSiJcd streets to the cathedral streets were lined by troops who saluted sa-luted the passing cortege OUDI3R OF PROCESSION The pallbearers were Dr Jameson John Gordon Sprlgg the Premier of Sir Cape Colony and six others The chief Col Frank Rhodes who mourner aa walked alone and bareheaded followed by the other brothers of the deceased of Lord Milner the I and representatives I British high Commissioner and Sir Walter HclyIIutchinion the Governor t ana Command IlnChle of the Cape of I Gwd Hope Then Orime the Judges military and naval officials the repre ntatlveo of the colonies churches and pirlfamsnt the Mayors and the stalls of the DelJ < ers and the British Chart Conspicuous companies < r < Hl South Africa spicuous In the proces lon were Messrs Mcrrlman Souor and Moltono former Miniiters and a number of members ot i the Afrlkander band I All business was suspended during the I funeral and all the public buildings r iscrc draped In mourning In front of i the cathedral stood a huge crowd bareheaded bare-headed and the building Itself was filled to its capacity The archbishop and other clergymen received the body at the porch ARCHBISHOPS ADDRESS During the services the archbishop made an address In which he declared that Sir Rhodes had faults of which he probably was as conscious as any one but nevertheless he was a great mann man-n Corc the Chartered company was contemplated con-templated l Mr Rhodes said to him Some > mens hobbles are to collect butterflies and old china Mine Is too to-o n South and Central Africa to British enterprise Though not a great churchgoer continued con-tinued the archbishop Mr Rhodes was essential religious Before his lost 11 flesh he realized the nearness of death and manifested an earnest desire to prepare pre-pare for IL CEREMONIES WERE LENGTHY At the conclusion of the services the procession reformed a dead march was played and the mourners proceeded to he station whence the remains accompanied ac-companied by the family the executors j of theVT1 l nml this w ere Takcn to I Rhodesia The entire ceremony lasted IKO and a half hOllr3ll wnsthe first public funeral In South Africa which called out such a remarkable demonstration demon-stration of public grief GATHERING AT BULWAYA Advices from Bulwaya Mataholcland say the natives are arriving hero In great numbers preparatory to I witness ing Cecil RhodcsB funeral Three thousand Matabcles will line the last mile of the road where the rcmalnn of Mr Rhodes are to rest The Alntabele chiefs are greatly Impressed by the fact that the body Is to bo burled close to the tomb of thlr big chief Mosllikatz |