Mrs. R. R. Kane.

Death in Sydney.

IT is with regret that we announce the death on December 29 of Mrs.

R. R. Kane, wife of Captain Kane, a former Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands, and niece of the late Sir John Thurston, ex-Governor of Fiji.

The late Mrs. Kane, who had suffered a long and painful illness, had been liv ing for some years at North Sydney, where her three sons had attended the Church of England Grammar School.

She was formerly very well known in Fiji, where she spent her youth and where she met and married Captain Kane. Mrs. Leembruggen, of Ocean Island, is a sister, and Mr. H. Thurston, of Suva, a brother. Captain Kane is at present in Ireland, and her three sons are now resident in Sydney.