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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 43, 20 February 1914, Page 6

Mrs Eobt. Louis Stevenson has died at Santa Barbara. Sbe has been living in California since Stevenson's death in 1894.—Press Association. Wives oP nearly all the members of the United States Cabinet have pledged themselves to support the egg boycott campaign now being waged to reduce the price, and eggs will be banished from their tables. During the Motoring Club's run l yesterday Mr H. Olliver met with a nasty mishap. The, tyre of his anotop-cycle burst some;'distance past Toko and lie was thrown a good way along-the 1 road, but lutikily escaped with*hothing more seridus than severe cute and bruises. '•-"it'll ■ ■'■ '■ ''•'■* Speaking at a complimentary luncheon tendered him by the Melbourne branch of the Royal Colonial Institute, Earl Grey said that 18 months ago, when he wa,s in the Congo, a man.; dresed in a flannel shirt came to him ;and said wartted to join the -msti=" ;tute, and asked him if he would, pro-., pose him. ' Up fephed that he would with pleasure, ' 'birt he asked the man if he thought it worth while to pay £1 , just to become a member. The man replied "Yes;.-.it is worth more than ' £1 to me to know I am a member of an organisation like that."