NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 29

NEWS IN BRIEF.

His Excellency Viscount Jcllicoe states that he has not yet received for perusal and comment the narrative and charts in connection with the Jutland battle referred to in last week’s cables. During the past year the New Zealand Nurses’ Memorial Fund Committee afforded relief to the extent of £4ll 2s 6tl to 13 annuitants, of whom three have died. The capita! fund now totals £19,050, thanks to a bequest by the late Mr James Mackay, of Wellington. Private advice has been received of the death of Alderman James Edgar, of Deal, England, one of the leading and most active residents in. that town. A native of Leith, Scotland, he took up his residence in Deal some 45 years ago, and developed the preferring industry, until the name of the firm and its goods became known in practically all parts of the world. He took un active interest and prominent part on all public affairs. During the war he gave up his residence, Spolden Lodge, for use as a war hospital, in which his daughters worked as V.A.D. nurses. He left four sons and five daughters. His eldest son, Mr George Edgar, was married some years ago to the daughter of “Alien,” an ex-New Zealander, well-known as a contributor for several years to the Indies’ page of the Otago Witness.