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Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 40, 31 December 1901, Page 5

The death is reported at Napier, o 1 Sir Norman Campbell, for some years an inspector of the Hawke’s Bay Rabbit Board. He recently underwent an operation at the Waipuliurau Hospital, where he died on Christmas morningi Sir Norman Montgomery Abercromby Campbell was the ninth baronet, and was born in 1846. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1875. He married, in 1886, Isabella, daughter* of the Marquis di Sarzano, better known as Miss Carandini. Xiidy Campbell survives her husband, w th two'daughters. The case of Norman George Cox, a postal and telegraph clerk at Hastings, who was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence for embezzlement, last Friday, is an unusual one. Michael Clarkin, a labourer, paid <£loo into the Savings Bank, telling Cox to place it This was never enie the, books. During Cox’s absence Mrs Clarkin called at the post office, and found that there was nothing standing to her credit in the books of the departmen*. In addition, accused never accounted for .£34 9s od, land tax paid in by Mr J. N Toss will, sheepfarmer. The theft of Pri.nce Alexander of Teck’s gold watch and purse on board tire Ophir is much regretted, but there was no necessity for the correspondents to emphasise the fact§ that the robbery was discovered just after the Ministers had left the Ophir.—Star, Montreal.