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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10629, 7 May 1912, Page 4

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Lieut .-General Baden-Powell is duo to arrive at Auckland on May 26! th. He will inspect Territorials, Cadets and all military organisations, and deliver'lectures at the four centres, and at other towns as time will permjo.

Mr J. H. Russel, of Dannevirke, part proprietor of the defunct Advocate, ieavqs on Thursday week on a visit to England. , •

Mr R. Roake, of Dannevirke, was a visitor to Master ton yesterday.

Sir Joseph Ward .has been re-elected, patron of the New Zealand Boxing Association.

The death is announced from London of Mr Joseph Nathan, founder oE the. firm of Joseph Nathan and Co. Deceased was one of New Zealand's prominent business men prior to his return to London to live close years ago, and was -° ns °f the men responsible for the development of P&U merston North.

Captain F. B. Head, the well-known, climber and explorer, wlio had;intended to spend about a year in New Zealand, lias been obliged to return toEngland. He had received word that his brother, Mr Christopher Head, a well-known Lloyd's underwriter at Home, was among the passengers lost in the Titanic.

A private cablegram received in Wellington yesterday announces the death on Friday last, in London, of Mr Rob' ert Stains, one of the founders of tbe firm of. Kirkaldie and Stains. Deceased was 77 years of age.

A Wellington Press inessige announces the death last night or Mr H. iS. Wardell, at the age of 82. The deceased came from England to New Zealand in 1855, and in the saiuti year was appointed resident -Magistrate, and in 1861 became a district Judge. He retired in Deceased was for many yearg, President of the New Zealand Academy of: Fine Arts. He was chairman of Lhe Police Commission in 1898, and was a. member of the North Island Representative Commission.