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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12710, 4 August 1919, Page 6

An Australian mall is expected in Christchurch to-morrow. A Waihi telegram announces the death of Colonel Stuart New all, C.8., who died in the district hospital yesterday, aged 77. The children’s ward at the hospital has been closed owing to an outbreak of chicken-pox. Inquiries at the hospital to-day showed that the outbreak was not regarded as a serious one, but the authorities were anxious to prevent the disease spreading and accordingly deemed it in the interests of both paW-s and visiters that the ward should be closed till further notice. The late -M’lDvan Roberts, .who is credited with being the first to make watches by machinery, collected watches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centimes as a hobby, and when he died bequeathed these to the South Kensington Museum, London, and to anotheiv.Enghsh museum, with instruc- : turns that duplicates should he given to recognised museums in other narr,s of the British Empire. Some of these duplicates have been received at CanUKeum , and now are on exhibition amongst recent additions there, rlr o Lindsay has presented a specimen of bituminous' wood; Mr Prcccn has .presented a further collection of Photographs of old Christchurch; and : Irs Johnston has placed on exhibition two _ handsome reindeer robes used by lier iq Herschel Island* North Canada*