EARL OF DUCIE.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1921, Page 1

EARL OF DUCIE.

iViIKKKK.S -.Mir* TO .'IV J AKXs.." j M ONKV. Nm . ]«i. ! 1 iu* elovut ton. in conse<piomo of tin* death of Jiis Inother, to the jx.*oraj»<' of j the now Kail mI Daoie, formerly Air K. j H. MihoUui, a member nt tin* Qiitviisl;>n«i Parliament, has not made him loss j taciturn Mur loss ilomooratio in his den»o;i nun r. Tho Kail, who is making iirraiijiil- - tor .his depnruuo lu Kurland, pifiors still to ho plain Air Morelon i to his friends. "My Kurd** secsm to prat* 1 on his oars: hut. as ho says, ho will havo l<> ornw aoiiisimnoil to that manner of addtoss. Piiriii" tin* whole tltl vents since I. oamo to Australia, Karl Duoio iin> not . otioo visitod Kurland. Ho hopes m not away early in tho Now Vt-ai, hut hi> hoir, (Veil 11. U. Moroton (now l.oid t Aloroion), who is I ow ino lu > (,)neenslaml. is unlikely to aeootnpany | him, hut may follow him homo in • Ma roll. ' I Although S 7 wars old, tho Karl is not j wo tried ahotit the lonn trip aloiio. Lonf Diteio recalls having played oriokot with Dr \Y. (J. (Irace’s father, and he know as a hoy. ■, Tho Karl stated that ho was *2l when |

1 he .Mini tWO ynlllljier luoiluTK landed t | in Syilnoy. Krom that city In* rode horse in Wiififfa, miles distant. A few v f:irs’ experience was iSiMiifd on :i station on tin* .M urniin I*l >i« 1 *j;<*e. after which Ik* wcm to Al a i yhninuoh, (Queensland. h was that clisi rie l that 1 irst sent him into politics in J-S7O. ;iiul In* been me ;i AJinisiei of tlit* Clown. One of the Kail’s brothers reft i*»*• ' In died in Australia. and the second; one v. as secretary in Sir Win Aln- (* i cii'U . in New (ininea. There are there ntiiei hmilicrs in the family, one j in the army, and tun in the navy. Kurd Ducic was married in (Queensland, his wife, who died some months non. heiiio da* dime liter ni a police Hindis trato. Mis heir. Lord Aloreton, has no family.