DID HE DIE?

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 9

DID HE DIE?

BROTHER OF FERGUS HUME. .' OF NEW ZEALAND. '■ (By Telegraph.-—Press-.Association.) ■' ; DUNEDIK, this day. A ca'-se which occupied the attention of thev Supreme Court to-day related to the disappearance of James Edward Hume, a son of James Hume, tho original proprietor of Ashburn Hall., James Edward Hume went to Malaya in 1902, and after a few -letters had bee,n received from him nothing further was heard. Mr. Justice Kennedy was asked to presume that Hume had died, - and after hearing'counsel his Honor reserved : ;j, , i : , -.• ~.".. It is inte'resting '. record"; that a brother, of-the man' who disappeared is Fergus .Huiue, author of "The .Mystery 6f a Hansom'€ab," who now, icicles in Ess'cxi'aiki'-'tha^.a , sister is ;Mrs. Mary Hume Wilieby, , her husband being the .weifxkiiQ.wn,: icoinpdser. , ■; ■;; A i/collisjion if a motor lorry driven by Mr." A. S. Mac Donald, of Clevcdon,: and,.a sepond lorry 'owned by the General Haillage Co., and driven by Mr. E.H. Dyke, occurred on the Great South Road Between Takanini, and Papakura ftbout fiye o'clock last evening. "Both lorries were travelling- southward. ■■ The front portion of' Mr. MacDQi)ald'a vehicle \va,s damaged. No one was injured.. . , .'.•••-'. ' ~ /