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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 4

A sum of nearly £800 is now banked to. the. credit of a fund, for the building of a Trades Hall in Auckland. , Tlie money represents the accumulated profits of the several Labour Day celebrations, that have been held durinug the past ten or twelve years. The death took place at Innerwick/ England, at the beginning of February, of Mr; Richard Hunter, Laird of Thurston, an extensive landowner in Haddingtonshire, who, owing to his extraordinary likeness to King Edward, was knowuX as "the King's Double." A good linguist and of considerable wealth, Mr. Hunter, travelled much abroad, and it was. mainly while on the Continent that . ihese< embarrassing mistakes were made. On one occasion he found his apartments, in Paris under special guard, and another time when lie entered a noted Paris restaurant the band struck up; the National Anthem. "