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Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1928, Page 3

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PRINCE OF WALKS. j (Australian Press Association & Sun.) LONDON, Fel». 20. A thrillin'; story of how the Prince of Wales was nearly hilled hy a trench shell at Houlthnrst Farm during the war time was told hv Major Dudley Ward at a dinner of the Welsh Guards Com rades Associ at ion. “We had been shelled that day by a heavy French gun and sent out a message protesting. "We were told it was not a French gun and it was high time that wc know the difference between French and German guns. Suddenly we saw two figures coming up a hill. One was the Prime of Wales. The gun was not then firing but when tlicv"were half way up the Frenchmen restarted and shells fell all around the Prince of Wales. One completely hid him from view. Colonel Sterling. Commander of the ■Battalion /shrieked: “My Cod they have got him.’' > A voice: “Thank God they did not. ‘You are right," added Major Ward. “They didn’t, for we saw the Prime of Wales legging it through, falling mud and filth to a German pillbox wo had taken just before.” The Prince of Wales attended the dinner. AN ESTATE. [“ Sydney Sun ” Cables.] (Received this day at 0.30 a.m). LONDON. Feb. 2(5. The “Daily Mail” states the novelist Thus Hardy left £91,000. His will requests that a complete edition of his poems he published at a price within the reach of poorer readers. He bequeathed half of his residuary trust to the first Wessex University established and if one is not established within five years of his wife’s death, the bequest passes to Magdelcne College Cambridge. The remainder of the estate is left in trust for his widow, Hardy’s brother and sister after bequests to charity and to relatives. HARDY’S WILL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Fell. 27. Hardy was much wealthier than anticipated. His will, dated 24/8/22, left unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to his literary executors, who arc his wife and Sydney Conkerill of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, giving power to dispose without iiijlliy to any persons of character. Ihe executors are requested to cause to l>o published an edition ot his complete poems at a price within reach of poorer readers. Hardy left CdO sterling to the- pension fund of the London Society for the Preventon oif Cruelty to Anmials and Council of Justice loi Animals, with a view of lessening the sufferings of animals in transit to homes and slaughter houses, and condemnatory action in regard to caging of wild birds and rabbits. A few gilts of books and portraits are made to galleries and friends. Otherwise the estate goos to his wife, his brother and sister'. 101st BIRTHDAY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 2(i. Mrs S. G. Hnyzen, of Canterbury, | celebrated her 101st. birthday. She participated in the gold rush in 18o_. when she went to Australia in a "indjammer, the voyage taking six mouths, in striking contrast with Hinkler s record. 80 LEPERS. LONDON, Feh. 26. 'Hie Quintal report of the British Empire Loprn-y Relief Fund Association slates there are eighty lepers in Australia. Sir Leonard Rogers, at the meeting, maintained despite criticism. that leprosy was curable in the early stages if treated with hydnocarpus oil. He declared eighty per cent of probable infection could be detected and cleared up in the early stages, if the countries were sufficiently advanced to carry out the simple plan of examining households, and close contacts of all lepers every six months for five years. OBITUARY. LONDON. Feb. 29. Obituary. -Win. O’Brien, Irish Nationalist. A FIND. LONDON. Feh. 26. An underground chamber was discovered by workmen laying a cable. ietwen the House of Commons and the \bbey. Tt is believed to he the remains of the house occupied by the poet Chaucer in tl.e 13th. century before Henrv Ttli’s Chapel wa.s erected ,n 1536. The cl.apel of St. Alary s stood practically on the same site. Ttci-ou Is I Show that Chaucer, when Parliamcn--1 tmy clerk leased a house adjacent to fit Atarv’s. ' Th- position of the Chamber corresponds with wl.at must have been Chaucer’s.