KITCHENER, ESQUIRE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 375, 5 July 1911, Page 7

KITCHENER, ESQUIRE.

Lord Kitchener is to enjoy some of the leisured ease of a typical English country gentleman, says the London correspondent of the 'Melbourne Age.' Shortly before he left India we were told that he regarded his military career as being virtually ended, and that he proposed to live quietly in England during the remainder of his life, probably as a farmer and stock breeder in a small way. Lord Kitchener remains one of the minor Ministerial problems of the day. The only officialjob provided for him at present is that of carrying the Sword of State at the Coronat : on! Meanwhile, we have the more interesting news that he has realised at last an early ambition by becoming the purchaser of Broome Park Estate, a delightful old place amid the Kentish hills between Canterbury and Folkestone. It is associated in literary history with "Ingoldsby Legends," and was for generations the home of the Oxendon family. At one time the estate comprised 5400 acres. Mortgages ate into it at intervals. Now the area is only 550 acres. But this is the best of the land. It offers a couple of magnificent views and bear 9 a stately old manison, dating from 1636, and containing beautiful marbles and other interior decorations of a class which is rare even in England.