OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 122, 5 March 1936, Page 6

OBITUARY.

MR ARTHUR H. ADAMS. United Press Association —Copyright) SYDNEY, March 4. The well-known author and. poet, Mr Arthur Henry Adams, died in hospital to-day. The newspapers pay tribute to his work, which is described as particularly graceful in style. Mr Adams was born on June 27, 1872, at Lawrence, Otago, and was educated at the Otago High: School and at Otago University, from, which he graduated B.A. He began the study of law, but took up journalism, and went through the Boxer rebellion in China as a war correspondent. After three years spent in London in contributing to magazines and newspapers, he returned to New Zealand, where he was engaged in journalism. Later lie became editor of, the "Red Page" of the "Bulletin," Sydney, and of the "Lone Hand." He was on the literary staff of the Sydney "Sun," and later returned to the "Bulletin." As well as several volumes of yerse, he wrote dramas which have been produced in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and One, "Mrs Pretty and the Premier," in London. •*