KITCHENER'S RETIREMENT.
A MINISTERIAL PROBLEM.
Lord Kitchener is to enjoy some of the leisured ease of a typical English country gentleman (says thejJLpndon correspondent of the “Age”), Shortly before he left India we were told that he regarded his military career as being virtually ended, and that he proposed to live quietly in England during the remainder of his life, probably as a farmer and stock breeder in a/ small way. Lord Kitchener remains one of the minor Ministerial problems of the day. The only official job provided for him at present is that of carrying the Sword of State at the Coronation! Meanwhile, we have the more interesting news that he has realised at last -an early ambition by becoming the purchaser of Broome Park Estate, a delightful old place amid the Kentish hills between Canterbury and Folkestone. It is associated in literary history with the “Ihgoldsby Legends, and was for generations the home of the Oxendon family. At one time the estate comprised 5400 acres. Mortgages ate into it at intervals. Now the .area is only 550 acres. But this is the best of the land. It offers a couple of
magnificent views and bears a stately old mansion, dating from 1626, and containing beautiful marbles and other interio’r decorations of a class which is rare even in England.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 16 June 1911, Page 11
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221KITCHENER'S RETIREMENT. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 154, 16 June 1911, Page 11
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