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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 5

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Princess Victoria is still in hospital, •with ex-King Manoel in constant attendance (states a Times-Syduey Sun special cablegram from Berlin). Mr John Boyle, storekeeper, of Patea. died yesterday at the Hawera Hospital. The Rev. Dill Mac Kay, late of Sydney, was accorded an impressive funeral. All the Protestant bodies were largely represented. Mr C. F. Day, stationmaster.at New Plymouth, left on transfer to Palmerston yesterday. The Hon. IV. Collins and Hon. Thomas Mackenzie have been appointed members of the Board of Trade’s new Advisory- Committee on Commercial Intelligence for a term of three years, states a London cablegram. Sir Edward Carson has decided not to practise in the law courts until the Ulster question is decided. The decision entails a loss of £2OOO monthly, states a London cablegram. Captain R. B. Smythe, adjutant of the field artillery, Dunedin, and Captain C. Melville, instructor in infantry duties for the Auckland district, have been chosen to proceed to England for a two years’ course at the Staff College at Camberley. Thev will leave in the course of the next fortnight. The Hon. Thomas Kelly, of New Plymouth, who has been a member of the Legislature for the past' twentyone years, retired from that position yesterday, the seven years term foi which he was re-appointee in 1906 having expired. Mr Kelly represented New Plymouth in the House of Representatives from 1869 till 1884, and was called to the Upper House in 1892. 1 The death of Sir George Wombwell, Crimean war veteran, is reported from London. Ho was the fourth Baronet, the title having been created in 1778. He was a cornet in the 17th Lancers, and was promoted for gallantry in the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. He retired from the Army in 1855.