OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 1 October 1908, Page 5

OBITUARY.

A VICTORIAN LABOUR- LEADER.

Press Association-By, Telegraph-Copy rym MELBOURNE, Sept. 30. Mr Bromley, a member of the Assembly. and ex-leader of the Labour Party, died to dav. ." Y .*

Received 12.50 a.m., October Ist. LONDON, Sept. 30. The death is announced of Mr Jack, Melbourne manager of the Colonial Mutual Life Company. R. G. DEANS. Per Press Association. CHRTSTCHURCH, Sept. 30. ■R. G. Deans, a member of the thsfc All Blacks' footabll 'team that, visit-ed England in 1905, died to-day from appendicitis. .

Tlie announcement/ of the untimely death of " Burly Bob" Deans will be received with regret throughout New Zealand. The deceased was a member of a well-known Canterbury family, and though only in his 25th year, had made an international reputation in the Rugby world. Deans wm the youngest member of the All Black team in 1905, and represented the colony in the third test match against the late British, team., His unassuming manner,' combined'- with . his prowess on the field, -'matte him* easily Canterbury's' most papular ; ' fooflmrier, and his l«ss -will be severely felt.- by- the province.

AUCKLAND, Sept. 30. Sub-laspectipr . Gordon, of the- A lickind police, died to-dav after a short lness. ■

HOKITIKA. Sept. . 30. Mr James McDonald, formerly crier at the Supreme Court, died in* the Westland Hospital yesterday;..