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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 4

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A London cable says that the Duke of Norfolk has undergone a serious operation at Leeds. (Professor Oardston, whu recently organised the Wellington Queen Carnival, with sueli conspicuous success, jg at pre. sent ill a private hospital, at Wellington, suffering from a nervous breakdown. The death is reported of one of OrmomMUe's pioneer settlers, Mr. W. H. Beale, aged seventy-live years. The late Mr. Beale, who joined the British Navy at the age of fourteen years, was in action in the Indian Mutiny, and held a good conduct medal and also a Queen Victoria medal for service in the Persian war. lie was married in ISBB, and emigrated to .Yew Zealand, arriving iu Napier in 1875. A Stratford family holds a unique record. Colonel W. (!, Malone and two sons, Kdinond and Terence. are serving with the forces at the Dardanelles, the colonel 'being in command of the 10th (Wellington) Battalion. One <.f the sons, Terence, has been severely wounded. A third soil, Maurice. is leaving with the Oth Reinforcements, and another, Brian, has already seen service in Samoa, and has been akeopted for the reinforcements, hoping to get away within the next three months. A sister, Miss Nora Malone, is nursing with the Ked Cross organisation iu England, "'or elsewhere," and th's • completes the tale of the family, not one representative of which will be left in New Zealand when 'Mr. Brian Malone dons khaki again, and sails for the front. "And if there were more of us, they'd be in it, too," he remarked to a pressman to whom he laid the foregoing facts,