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Messrs C. and JI. Jenkin, of Port Levy, are visiting Greymouth. Constable D. K. R. McQuarrie, of Millerton, will arrive at Greymouth to-day on transfer. From sixteen applicants, Miss Joan Raleigh, of Cobden, has been appointed shorthand-typiste at the Greymouth Borough Council office. i The funeral of the late Mrs Jane L Ann Richards took place yesterday The services at deceased’s Mate residence, Taylorville, and at the at Karoro Cemetery, were by Rev. W. A. Beaumont, death is announced from Paris Wharton, the American novShe was born in 1862, and marlBB5. She wrote numerous and other books from 1899, was regarded as one of the best writers. She was awardeehonours. A London cablegram announced y the death of Doctor Hans Reck. African explorer and scientist. He discovered in East Africa skeletons of a race allied to the Neanderthal .Man. and made important discoveries in the helium problem, and volcanic eruptions in Vesuvius and the South SecIslands. The death occurred on Tuesday last at St. Leonard’s, of Rev. William Trotter. He succeeded the late Rev. R. Stewart as minister of St. Johns Presbyterian Church, Greymouth, in 1912, being in charge for about three years. His next call was to the Mornington Presbyterian Church, Dunedin, from which he retired after 14 years service. He is survived by his wife, son, and three daughters.