SENSATIONAL SUICIDES.
TRIBUTES TO ARMITAGE.
(Br Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Pbess Association.) Received March 15, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, March 14. Sir Ernest Shackleton, in the course of an interview, said Mr Armitage, whose suicide was reported from Melbourne, was a loyal and zealous comrade, good in any eriiergency and always ready for work.
Received March 15, 9.10 a.m. SYDNEY, March 15. Professor David pays a tribute to MiArm itage as one of the most fearless, conscientious and unselfish members of the Antarctic expedition. NEW YORK, March 14. Dr. Benson, aged 73, and his wife, aged 57, swallowed poison at the breakfast table in a Philadelphia Hotel and died immediately. They. were disappointed owing to their failure to win a prize of £40,000 offered by the French Academy of Medicine for a euro for tuberculosis.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 9166, Issue 9165, 15 March 1910, Page 5
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