OBITUARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 207, 15 June 1936, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MR G. K, CHESTERTON. POET AND NOVEL-181‘. (United Press Assocjation—«Copyrightrl (Received This Day, 8.55 am.) LONDON, July 14. Mr G. K. Chesterton, journalist, poet, satirist and novelist, is dead, aged 62. Mr Chesterton wrote epigrammatically 011 all subjects, and contributed a weekly causerie to the “Illustrated London News.” His first book, “Types of Men,” was published in 1912, and \his first play, “l\’la.gic,” was produced in London the following year. He had recently edited “The New Witness.” He travelled in Palestine in 1920 and wrote “The New Jerusalem.” He went on a long lecturing tour in the United States of America in 1921., and became converted to the Roman Catholic faith in 1922. The Edinburgh University eonferred the honorary LL:.D. degree on him in July, 1925, and that year his book, “Everlasting Man,” was published. “Return of Don Quixote” ap-. peared in 1927, “Four Faultless Felons” in 1930‘, and Chaucer in 1932. He. was elected a member of the Athenaeum Club in 1934, under its rule relating to distinguished men, The Pope conferred on him. the Knight Conunandership of the Order of St. Gregory in May, 1934.

SIR JOHN BOWNER.

MELBOURNE, June 13‘

Sir John Bowner, politician, journalist and agriculturalist, is dead. ‘He was in the Victorian Legislative ASsembly for an unbroken period of 35 years. He was Speaker for three years and for a brief period was Premier. ' MAJOR A. H. BATHURST. LONDON, June '14.. The death has occurred of Major Arthur Henry Batliurst, Viscount Bledisloe’s brother, and his military secretary in New Zealand. '