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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 201, 9 August 1927, Page 4

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The Empress Marie of Russia is critically ill, states a Copenhagen cable.

A London cable announces the death of Viscount Deerhurst, age.! 62 years.

Miss 1. M. Clayton has returned to Hastings from Sydney, where she has been studying for the last six months at the Conservatorium of Music.

Mr H. Harrison, librarian at the Cawthron Institute and formerly a well-known pressman in various parts of New Zealand, is dead, states t Nelson Press Association message.

Having received advice of the serious illness of her father in Wellington, Mrs. D. W. Hursthouse left Hastings this morning by the mail train.

Lieut.-Colonel J. W. Hutchen, secretary to the Administrator ot Western Samoa, accompanied by Mrs Hutchen. arrived by the Tofua at Auckland yesterday to spend three months’ furlough in New Zealand.

Bishop I S. Kempthorne. Bishop of Polynesia, who has been visiting various parts of his diocese, reached Auckland yesterday by the Tofua. He intends to' remain in New Zealand until the latter part of September.

Mr. H. A. Haynes, commissioned gunner of H.M.B. Diomede, who has resigned from the Navy to become ordnance officer in charge of the new magazine at Narrow Neck, returned to Auckland by the Tofua yesterday from Suva, having left the Diomede at that port.

Bandmaster Ricketts, conductor ot the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Band, which visited Dunedin Exhibition, has been appointed bandmaster ot the Royal Marines Depot at Deal. Mr. Ricketts is the composer of the well-known “Colonel Bogey” march.

Among those staying at the Masonic Hotel, Napier, yesterday were Messrs. Gordon, A. R. Cornish (Sydney), Jas. Morton (Melbourne), J. AlcN'arue, A. D. Carson, \V. Ballinger, John Phillips, E- G. Allan, A. simmer, E. P. Begnean, N. D. Griffin, Misses L. Kohn, 8. Al. Lea, and Mrs J. Willcox (Wellington), Air and Airs A. K. Gihnour (Te Puia Springs), Aliss E. H. Ross (Dunedin), Alessrs. J. 1). Smith (Hamilton), T. G. Miller, R. Stewart (Auckland), A. A. Davies. (Lower Hutt), Mrs T. B. Spence, Aliss Seymour (Gisborne), B. Laurandson (Wanganui).