The death is announced of Margaret Young, Queen of the Manna Group of islands in the South Seas. She was a granddaughter of an English sailor who landed on one of the islands half a century ago and married the native Queen. Through the death of all the male heirs, she was called upon to rule in 1891, when nineteen years old. She confessed that her life was one of misery, a,s she was never permitted to walk. outside her residence, but had to be carried in a litter by her maids, and whenever she thus ventured forth her subjects were forbidden under pain of death to leave theii domiciles.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10918, 28 March 1896, Page 6
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110Page 6 Advertisements Column 8 Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10918, 28 March 1896, Page 6
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