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Nigeria Gazette

GAZETTE NoTICE No. 85. It is with the deepest grief and most profound sorrow that the Governor performs the extremely painful duty of announcing to the loyal and loving subjects of the Crown in this Colony and Protectorate, that our august, reYered, and beloved .. OVERETGN Hrs MAJESTY KING GEORGE V, by the graee of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the FaHh, Emperor of India, passed away at Sandringham Hour::e at 11.55 p.m., on the twenlieth day of January, Hl36. At Lagos, this twenty-first day of January, in …