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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 49

BEFORE AND AFTER: DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF PARLIAMENTARY BUILDUPS, WELLINGTON, ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 11.

The abo\e ii an i tce-i'm; rojal fami!\ <j,r up showing four generations of the liou'-e of Ponto Coi\o. which hub mled Sweden for close upon a hundred jean KirgOscar 11, whose death was reported by cable lait week, is seated with the infant Gu«tav Adolph, born in 1906, in his arms. His eldest son, Gustav Adolph, Duke of Scania, now King of Sweden, marr.ed the Princess Margaret Victoria, of Connau^ht, m 1905

THE ROAD. Mr J. Lane (J. Lare and Co , cordial manufacturers), who is i ' 2 years of age. lias been "on the road" for 14 years.

The subject of this epitaph was a miner of the early sixties, who was accident l!v ■ ji. y a fal! ° f earth on tne m °rning following his return from Victoria. wheTe ho had been on a visit to hi<? motlier. The io,v delapidated railing was originally mad. from the pole of an o'd bullock dray, and erected by the present sexton of the cemetery, who is seen in the photograph T TT „ , — J H. Patrick photo

— Baatty, pLoto.

The above illustration, whi'e ve r y typical o" the approach to many a settler's home in Fiji, is of special interest to leaders of th ■ Ladies' Page, as b.ing sent by "Ihe ... t. jin i ._., \,.u wis-.es thus to conve ■tj her many unknown friends an idea of tlie avenue which is or.c of h^r favour. te a;> -roaches tj the sea.