RUSH TO DEATH-BED

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1030, 22 July 1930, Page 9

RUSH TO DEATH-BED

NEW ZEALAND BISHOP’S WIFE DIES IN ENGLAND DAUGHTER ARRIVES TOO LATE Reed. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The death is announced of Mrs. Wallis, the widow of Bishop Wallis, late of Wellington, New Zealand. She became ill at sea on her way to London. Her elder daughter arrived a day too late to see her mother alive. The Rev. A. Didsdale and Dr. WestWatson, Bishop of Christchurch, officiated at the burial.

SERVED IN EGYPT Reed. 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The death is announced of the Rt. Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Cuthberi James, C.8.E., Conservative member of Parliament for Bromley, and former administrator in the Sudan, aged 58 years. Lieutenant-Colonel James was educated at Harrow and at Oxford. In 1899 he joined the Egyptian Army and served in the first White Nilo Expedition against the Ivhalifa. He was administrator of Wadi Haifa in 1900-01. A few years later he was assistantfinancial secretary in the Egyptian Army, and he subsequently rejoined the Army at Home, in which he served in the Great War. He was once inspector of Admiralty transport and also assistant-director personnel and accounts for the Ministry of Interior in Egypt. FUNERAL OF NEW ZEALANDER Reed. 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Monday Mrs. Russell, the wife of Archdeacon Russell, of Oamaru, New Zealand, was interred at Harrow in the presence of Sir Thomas and Lady Wilford and Mr. T. C. List, a New Zealand member of the Imperial Press Conference.