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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 36, 12 February 1914, Page 5

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The King visited Lord Rosebery and remained for an hour.—London P.A. cablegram.

Mr Norman Pepperill has been appointed huntsman of the North Taranaki Hunt.

Viscount Gladstone retires from tho Governor-Generalship of South Africa in May, states a London cablegram.

The death is Reported from Melbourne of ex-Police Sergeant Steele, who was wounded when he captured Ned Kelly in the Gleurowan Hotel.

Allan Stevens, a well-known Dunedin flourmiller, died rather suddenly yesterday, aged 56 years (states a Press Association telegram). He leaves a widow, two sonslf and two daughters.

Mr Diamond Jenness, of Lower Hutti who was a member of the Steffanson Arctic expedition, is safe, his father, .Mr G. A. Jenness, of Lower Hutt, having received a, cablegram from Ottawa, saying; “Jenness safe.”

Mr Sydney Buxton succeeds Lord Gladstone, says a Press Association cablegram from London. Mr John Burns is transferred to the Board of Trade, Mr. Herbert Samuel to the Local Government Board, Mr C. E.

Hobhouse becomes Postmaster-General 1 and Mr C. F. G. Masterman Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. u Byelections will be necessary at Poplar and Bethnal Green. From 1905 to 1910 Mr Buxton was Postmaster-Gen-

eral, and in 1908 he,established penny

postage with IJ.S.A. He was appointed President of the Board of Trade in 1910, and in 1911 he took part in the settlement of the railway strike. He is a member for the Poplar Division of Tower Hamlets. .Mr John Burns, member for Battersea since 1892, was appointed President of the Local Government Board in 1905. Mr Hobhouse was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1911. Mr Masterplan was elected Bethnal Green (South-West) in July, 1911.