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Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1922, Page 4

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Dr. R. J. Boyd is leaving Eltham on account of ill health. A London cable announces the death of Mr. George Cadbury, owner of the London Daily News. A London cablegram states that Canon Masterman has been appointed Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth. A Sydney cable states that the Rev. Steel Craik, formerly of Auckland, has been inducted as chairman of the New South Wales Congregational Union. Mr. Allan "Wilkie, the Shakespearian actor, will be the guest of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon today. Mr. Wilkie will give an address on “Shakespeare and. the Empire.” Mr. Thomas Boucher Hill, the most familiar figure of the Raglan district, died there on Saturday last in his 90th year. He came out to New Zealand as a boy and eventually settled at Raglan, where in addition to farming he carried on a chemist’s business. The death has occurred at Queenstown of Mr. Wesley Turton, a wellknown solicitor,'at the age of seventyfive years. Mr. Turton, who was born in Taranaki, was the third son of the late Rev. Henry Hanson Turton, one of the early missionaries, who was stationed at Omata. The late Mr. Turton took part in the Maori war. Subsequently he passed his law examinations, and in 1870 went to Queenstown and commenced practice. Mrs. (Edith Beck, whose death from typhoid occurred at Opotiki on Tuesday, was well-known in North Taranaki, especially in the Urenui district, where she resided in her girlhood. General sympathy will be extended to her mother (Mrs. Edward Julian), of New Plymouth, in this second sad bereavement within a few weeks, her only son Verner having recently died from typhoid at Opotiki. Mrs. Beck, who was only 29 years of age, was the widow of the late Mr. Wm. Beck, and leaves a young family to mourn their loss.