AN AGED KING DEAD
NICHOLAS OF MONTENEGRO. LONDON, March 2. Tho death is announced of Nicholas, ex-King of Montenegro, fh his 80th year. [Petrovich Nyegosh, Nicholas f. ; of Montenegro, was born on October 7th, 1841, and was educated at Trieste and Paris. He was proclaimed Prince of Montenegro, as successor of his uncle on August 14th., 1860. He assumed tho title of King in virtue of a resolution passed unanimously by the National Skupshtina, on August 28th 1910, on the occasion of tho 50th anniversary of his accession. He was married on November Bth, 1860 to Milena, Petrovna Vukotitch, daughter of Senator Peter Vukotitch, Vice-President of the Council of State. There were nine children of. the marriage, the third daughter Princess Stana being married in 1907 to the Russian Grand Duke Nicholas and the fifth Princess Helena, born in 1873, being married in 1896 to King Victor Emanuel of jtaly. Alontonegro took part in the war on the side of tin? Allied Powers, and the aged King Nicholas shared many of the hardships of his troops in the struggle against Austria. After the Armistice the Serbians ordered elections for a National Assembly, which, on November 25th, 1918, declared itself in favour of the deposition of King Nicholas and the dynasty, and on November 26th it voted for tho union of Montenegro with the .Tngo-Slav State of the Kingdom of Sorbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Since his deposition King Nicholas had been living in France.]
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1921, Page 4
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243AN AGED KING DEAD Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1921, Page 4
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