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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 5

Tho King sent a consignment of fat stock from the Royal farms at Windsor to a sale at Sloi;;,'h (Buckinghamshire) Kittle market. Fourteen Devon bullocks fetched from .£23 ss. to £18 155., a Highland bullock fetched ,£2O, a fat calf £6 2?. Gd., hnlf-brsd lambs from 395. to 15s. each, Southdown wether sheep 50s. each, and half-bred Scotch sheep from 12s. Gd. to 465. each. The late Mr. E. W. R Portman's famous h,ord of Dsvou cattle was sold at Kingston, Somerset, recently. The highest price for a heifer was sixty-seven guinea. l !, whilo t;ho highest price for a bull was sixty-six guineas, given by Lord Portman, father of tho late Mr. Portman. The late Mr. Thomas Turner, of Florence Road, Brighton, by his will left XSOO and a gold watch and chain to his eon, Jonathan Ernest Edward Tumor, who was Inst heard of in Auckland, New Koaland, the bequests to bo paid within two years of the testator's death, which took place on April 7. He stated that ho had already made provision for his son. Mr. T. Turner, who formerly lived at Swindon, Wiltshire', and was a director nf the Swiudon United Chs Company, left property worth J!G2,-«iO. A molor-omnibiis in which thirty members of a theatrical company known m "The Pastoral Mummers" were travelling from London to Tonhridge, was wrecked Tocpntly at River Hill, a dangerous decline outsido Seyenoaks. Owing to the brake-drum becoming clogged tho. driver lost control of the omnibus, which gathered speed and was soon travelling at about forty miles an hour. At the bottom of tho hill a traction engine appeared in the road, ant! to avoid a collision the driver of the omnibus turned his vehicle into the hedge, running down a steep bank and missing a fir tree by inches. The body of the omnibus was detached from the chassis and overturned, tho members of the company being thrown out in all directions. Several of them were cut by broken glass and treated at Seveuoaki Cottage Hospital.