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Opportunity will fee taken by the Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) on his visit to New Plymouth this week on Prison Board business, to deliver an address at the Brotherhood on .Sunday afternoon. News has .been received in I'hristehurch that Major Andrew, of the IIUUh Mahrattaii, and a native of Christchurch, has been promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel He recently completed a political mission in India, and is said to have accomplished his task with tact and ability. Mr. James Drysdale Wilson, eight-two years of age, a survivor of the famous six hundred at Balaclava, was married quietly a week ago to a lady epivietaj years his junior. Mr. Wilson was born in Edinburgh, and came to New Zealand 4o years ago. He joined the 10th Royal Hussars in 1851, and arrived at the Crimea on the eve of the Battle of Balaclava, and was in the famous charge. He saw other service in the Crimea, and possesses three war medals—lndian, CriTurkish. When His Majesty the King, then Duke of York, was in New Zealand, he conversed with who lie said was a member of his father's old -regiment.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 98, 11 September 1912, Page 4
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189PERSONAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 98, 11 September 1912, Page 4
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