Abbreviations used
Date March 13 1888
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
A Trinidad paper of Feb. 4 has the following by cable from England: Sir Henry J. IRVING, Governor of Demerara has been gazetted Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George ... Surgeon S. Leonard CRANE, Companions of the same. Surgeon General Crane is a native of Kings Co., N.S., a nephew of late Dr. AVERY of Halifax and a brother of Mrs. George H. STARR. Last year he took unto himself a wife (his cousin) a daughter of late Hon. Wm CRANE of Sackville (West. Co.) N.B.