The death, is-announced of Mi;. Francis Richard Wagg Prosser, who was believed to be the last survivor .of the Parliament of 1847. Ma\ Prosser, wire was' 87 years of age, represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons from 1847 to 1852. A marriage' pijoMb'itian decree has been .announced at Samoa, writes th'o Ba'-itish. ■"Viee-Gcsnsnjl, forbidding union between whites and natives, whites and half-castes, classed as .natives, halfcastes and half-castes classed as natives, and between .jjal'f-eaites and natives. Mr. .T. H. Courai, of . Kingston-on-'JMiaiiies, has ju«t received from the War Office the medal for the China Expedition of- 1860, in which, he. served with tho King's Royal Rifles under Elgin. Mr. Courai wrote 50 letters to the before his amplication for a medal was sranted.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 21 October 1911, Page 5
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