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ADMIRAL STUART NICHOLSON. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, September 10. The death is announced of Admiral Stuart Nicholson. Admiral Stuart Nicholson entered the Royal Navy in 1878. He served at the Dardanelles during the Great War, and was mentioned in dispatches. From 1902 to 1906 he was Assistant Director of Naval Intelligence. He was born on the Isle of Wight in 1865. MR A. B. TRIGGS. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 11.50 p.m.) Sydney, September 11. The death has occurred of Mr Arthur B. Triggs, who was one of Australia’s greatest individual sheepowners. He started his career in a bank at Yass. Mr Triggs saw possibilities of sheepraising and eventually he became the owner of 25 stations, shearing 600,000 sheep and marketing more than 12,000 bales of wool in one season. Just before the Great War Mi’ Triggs faced liabilities amounting io £1,500,000 and when the tide turned he not only redeemed the whole of his liabilities, but paid the accrued interest on his debts, which amounted to a small fortune.
REV. BROTHER MICHAEL MURPHY. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Sydney, September 11. The death has occurred of the Rev. Brother Michael Murphy, a member of the Marist Brothers’ Order and a native of Ross, New Zealand. He was 68 years of age.
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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214OBITUARY Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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