WANGANUI.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) Monday, 6 p.m.
Mr George Simpson, lion, secretary of tlm United Cricket Club, was on Saturday presented with a silver-mounted pipe, silver match-box and silver-mount-ed pouch, as a token of tho club’s appreciation of his services during the past four years. Tho death occurred yesterday of Mrs James Beck, sour., mother of tho wellknown violinist. Deceased, who had been a resident of this district for tho past twenty-nine years, recently underwent an operation for cancer. An old and familiar identity passed away to-day in the person of Robert Oliver, known as “Blind Oliver.” Tho old man had boon ailing for a fow weeks.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4523, 26 November 1901, Page 7
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