THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 1 February 1912, Page 5

THE LATE DUKE OF FIFE.

THE OFFICIAL pPORT. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Cairo, January 30. The official report states that the Duke of Fife was ill on the 19th. Pleurisy appeared on the 21st, but his temperature was norma 1 ! until Thursday, but the left lung was congested, and heart trouble appeared on Friday, increasing to heart failure thereafter. The patient's faculties were unimpaired until just before death. THE EARLDOM. THE HEIR AXAUSTRALIAS. Received 1, 12.30 a.m. London, January 31. The Daily News says that though the Princess Alexandra becomes the Duchess of Fife the Irish earldom created in 1759 apparently descends to an Australian, Mr. Jekyl Charmers Duff, of Warrnambool, and who some years ago was in the police service, and whose sons are in South Africa and India.

The Daily Mail states that a son of the first Earl, named George, died in 1818, and had a son, the Rev. George Duff, whose son, Colonel Daniel Duff, was employed by the East India Company. He was the father of Jekyl. No property accompanies the earldom.

LORD KITCHENER GOES TO ASSOUAN Receive 1, 1 a.m. Cairo, January 31. . Lord Kitchener has gone to Assouan. The Duke of Fife's body will be embalmed. The Princess Royal leaves on Friday aboard the Hyksos. The journey to Cairo will occupy eight or ten days.