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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 234, 6 November 1914, Page 10

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SUDDp PiATH. PUBLIQ TRUST OFFICIAL. ; SIR G. A. .3FOUND DEAD. Tlis district manager of t-fte Public TruatV/ Office, Christchurcli, and OiSciaJ Assignee for'-"' ■;he Canterbury district, J#r George -A&mjfei f- • . was found dead in bis room at th& Clarendon >. $ Hotel this afternoon. Tfco discovery was mada Vy one of the hotel staff. Dr Louisson was called 'in, but he cou-d only pronounce life •xtinct. The deceased was one of the best known officers in the Public Trust OMce. Ho wrs for sovcral years second in charge of tHs Wills and Trust Department* of the Head Office. He was regarded . as a remarkably . ails mas. ' When the Public Trust ' a^'r«-'' . rganis9d v a few years - ago, and the system . ~ district managers was instituted Mr M. O. 3 rnctt, then in charge of the Chrislcliu|ck ' ranch, vsras appointed inspector on tha'ilfead • OQjes staff, and . Mr ■ Smyth became district manager at Christchurch. iHe was still a ~ :.oung man, with a career before hinj in ths Department. The cause of. bis death will form the subject of a coroner's enquiry. I '. v : Tz ' ASIEEICAK ELECTIONS. WASHINGTON, November 5.,* - The General Election returns show tliat Democratic majority representative!! h»YO,'te'e»£ v reduced from 117 to 20. New York Stats has gone overwhelmingly for Republican. Mir 'Whitman heat Mr Glyn for the . Governorship easily. The congressional rcprescnM-. i ioif' of New Jersey has changed -from niae;?. Democrats and throe Republicans to eight; V publicans and four Democrats, the majority 'ijoing entirely wiped out. Tho Democrats are likoly to retain a majority, in the' fonatorial elections. Mr . Roosevelt l s" third party went . down, and the Progressive vote has-.appai- - ently been returned to the-Republicans.!. ' . HtJNTLY MINE. ' The arbitrators appointed to enquire ints the exploaivos used at Kuntly have decided that molobel is isot a safe espjosivs, i - *V _ » . ----- "•*' '■ ' ' V ' ; - ;1 —1 *V" ' >i'