OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 285, 1 December 1924, Page 8

OBITUARY.

MR. J. F. LOWRY. The interment took place this morning at Waikaraka Cemetery 0 £ th* remains of Mr. James Francis I__.n--wbo resided at Dedwood Terrace. Pun. sonby. A service was held at the Sacred Heart Church before the cortege kit. Mr. Lowry was 5S years of age and was a composiitor by trade, " and was at one time on the __a_t of the "New Zealand, Herald." He was at different times a member ol the choirs at St. Patrick.., St. Benedict's, and the Sacred Heart C_m_______ Mr. Lowry belonged to the Loyal Good Intent Lodge, and was also a hie member of the West End Rowing dab. H» is survived by his wife, one Ban, and one daughter. MRS. ELLEN McMHOT. " ! i The death at Devonport an Sstn> day of Ellen McMinn, widow of the lata Alexander McMLnn, recalls the days of early journalism ,in ttris country, Ha McMinn being- a pioneer j"ani___i_t fa the Wanganui, Wairarapa and Tnrn-uIK districts, and at the time of his deati some six years ago was on the regular staff of the He -aras a. man of very fine physique, being well _ver 85 in height, and in younger _ay_ wa_ the central figure in miny stirring scenes. He lived in the days when public feeling often rose to feiter Beat and a journalist had to (_____ d his opinions with his fists. The sfa___ng figure of Mr. McMinn often saved him from personal violence vsrimm many another .mailer man giving expression to the same opinions wxnld have sulerc-l severely. He was an authority <ro events connected with the later Maori wars and the early history of the countrry between the sixties nnd the seventies. DR. PERCY STEWART. (py Tele._r_._l~. —Own Corresrmnrlent.i DUNEDIN, this day. Word has been received by cablegram of the death of Dr. Percy Stewart, son of tlie late Dr. Peter Stewart, of Milton, at Rugby. England, where be was a medical practitioner. Dr. Stewart wa. trained at Milton, and tlie Otago Boyv' High School, and went through the" University. where he took his de•Tees. He wa. house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital for two years, and served during the whole peTiod of the war in Egypt in his medical capacity. He wa-.. not released until a year after tbe Armistice. He then set up practice in Rugby. England, and at the time of his death" was surgeon in the Rugby ospital. Mr. John Stewart, of Riverside Station. Clinton, is tho only surviving brother H. D. Stewart is other brother) having been killed in Belgium.