OBITUARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18542, 1 May 1922, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 29. The death is announced of Dr Mercer, formerly Bishop of Tasmania. [The late Dr Moscer graduated from Oxford. He was Rector of St. Michael’s, Manchester, from 1889 to 1897, and of St. James’s, Gorton, from 1897 to 1902. He was consecrated Bishop of Tasmania in St. Paul’s Cathedral* in 1902, and 'was enthroned at St. David’s Cathedral, Hobart, on September 3 of that year.] MR RICHARD CROKER, Prsss Association—By Telegraph— Copyright LONDON, April 30. (Roceived April 30, at 11.20 p.m.) The death is recorded of Mr Richard Croker, formerly a Tammany Hall boss. [The late Mr Richard Croker, who was born at Olonakilty, in the County of Cork, in 1841, was leader of Tammany Hall from 1834 to 1903. He was educated at New York, and was an Alderman of that city from 1868 to 1870. He was elected a Freeman of Dublin in 1908. He took a keen interest in horse racing, and won the Derby, Irish Derby, Curragh, and Boldoyle Derby with Orby in 1907, and (bo English Guineas with Rliodora, Orby’s half sister, the following year.] M. DESCHANEL. Press Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, April 28. The death has > occurred of M. Paul Deschanel, ex-President qI France.'—Reuter. [M. Paul Deschanel succeeded M. Poincare as President in .1920 and held office til! August in that year, when ho resigned Giving to ill-health, M. Milleraml filling the office. Shortly before his resignation M. Deschanel toll from a train and in a confuted condition wandered along the lino. He had difficulty in making his identity known and never seemed to have regained his former health.]