OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 18046, 14 August 1922, Page 6

OBITUARY

t ALBERT ROLLIT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 12. Tlie death is announced of Sir Albert R,.ollit.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Sir Albert Kayo Rollit had been Con-sul-General for Rumania since 1911. A solicitor by profession, he was also a shipowner, and a director of tho National Telephone Company. Ho was connected with the Associated Chambers of Commerce and other commercial bodies, and! counted among his foreign honors the Legion of Honor and a. Knight Commandership of Leopold. He represented Islington in the House of Commons from 1886-190-6 as a ‘‘ Progressive Conservative.” He was eighty years of age.] DUDLEY HARDY. LONDON, August 12. The death is -reported of Mr DudleyHardy, artist. [Mr Hardy was born At Sheffield in 1867. Ho was the eldest son of T. B. Ilardv, a well-known marine painter. Dudley Hardy will bo best remembered for his contributions to the illustrated Press ' Illustrated London News,’ ‘Sketch,’ ‘Black and White,’ ‘Graphic,’ ■Sphere. ‘Punch.’ etc. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Water Color Painters, Society of Oil Painters, Royal Miniature Society, etc.]

Mr William Sinclair, whose death at Melbourne was reported last week, was Crown Solicitor in Blenheim from 1H79 tc 1997), and be resigned that position tc stand for the lota! parliamentary scat. His contest was with Mr T. L. Boick, who was returned. Mr Sinclair held office a? a 1 vorough eouiuillM' for several years, am was a. mend).u of the Marlborough Education Boa.nl. llis wife predeceased him at Wellington some sixteen years ago. The 'death of Mr Stephen Earl at Tanranga removed another veteran of the Maori War. Deceased had reached the great age of ninety-two years. He was a native of Norfolk, England. In the early days of the Australian goldfields, abor' seventy-one years ago, Mr Earl was or the spot. Ho followed the gold for some years, and was afterwards farming in the Geelong district. While in Australia lit joined the Ist Waikatos, and landed at Auckland in 1860. Ho was connected with the Commisariat Transport Corps bctwc°' Auckland and the Waikato. Lat-er ho mcv drafted with his company to dauranga and took part in the fights in the Whaka mamma district. At the conclusion oi the war Mr Karl lived some lime at GnU Fa, but subsequently took up his military grant of land at Aongatctc. Twenty years ago ho moved to Wha.nga.rei, an( seven years ago event back to Tauranga. The -death of Mr Patrick M’Garthy, * Queenstown, was recently announced. 1 was a waggoner in the old days, and k later life ran the billiard saloon in th» main street.