OBITUARY.
MR J. H. BALFOUR BROWNE. LONDON, September 28. The death is announced of Mr John Hutton Balfour-Browne, K.C., who was reputed to have earned £40,000 a year at the Parliamentary Bar. [Mr J. H. Balfour-Browne was born in 1815. He was educated at Edinburgh University. He unsuccessfully contested Dumfriesshire in 1906 and "East Bradford in 1900 in the Conservative interests. He was the author of a number of law books. His other publications included “Essays, Critical and Political,” “War Problems,” “Forty Years at the Bar,” and “Recollections, Literary and Political.”] HERR HUMPERDINCK. BERLIN, September 28. The death is announced of Herr Humperdinck, the composer. [Egelbert Humperdinck was born at Sieg--burg, in the Rhine provinces, in 1851. He rose with great rapidity to a high pinnacle of fame. His best-known work is the opera “Hansel and Gretel.”]
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Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 19
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