OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16849, 1 June 1920, Page 6

OBITUARY.

• i DR. C. E. MORRISON. | (Australian and >i.Z. Cable Association.) ' (Received 313 v 31st, 7.40 p.m.) j * LONDON, May 30. I The" death is announced of Doctor Georg • Ernest Morrison, Political Ad- . viser to the Chinese President. , ("The Times.") (Received June Ist, 1.5 n.nO ! LONDON", May 30. Dr. Morrison died at Sidmonth, after lingering illness. He was occupied to the last in carrying out work for the Chinese Government from his sickroom. [Dr. George Ernest Morrison was ; born at Geolong. Victoria, on February 4th, 186:2. and was educated at Mel- ; bourn.> and E'-iTnburgh i"niv<n\sitic.s, | graduating in ISS7. In ISS2-S3 he crossed Australia from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Melbourne, and in 1594 lie I travelled overland from Shanghai to i Rangoon. Two years later, special correspondent of "The Tinv.s," he trai yelled from Bangkok, in Siam, to Yunnan City, in China, and around Ton- . q-.in. Dr. ♦Morrison was in Peking during the sle>re of the Legations, Jnn> j August, 15)r>D, and ns special corresponI dent of "The Tinvs." he was present j at the triumphal entrv of the Jananeso into Port Arthur in January, 1905, and lat the Portsmouth Peace Conference ; tlr-> same venr. In 1910 he rode from Honnn Citv. in Central China, across Aua to Andiinn. in Russian Turkestan. l "ivering 3750 miles in 17/5 days. Dr. Morrison, who Ind travelled in every province of Ch'iin, except Tibet, was appointed I'ol : tieal Adviser to the P''esid nf. of the Chinese Republic in 1912, a position for which his va=t kinwled-re of tli" country and its people made him peculiarly firmed. Dr. Morrison visited New Zealand in 1917.] MR R. G. THOMSON. (sncciAL TO "tttr press.") DUNEDIX, May 31. Mr Robert Gillies Thomscn, wlio died at Dannevirke last night, was a son of the lite Mr Peter Thomson, for yenrs chief proof-reader on the "Outgo Daily Times." The late Mr R. G. Thomson was, as a young man, a reporter in D'unodin, serving in turn on each of the daily papers, and he then joined the "Hans'trd" shorthand He causht a severe ccld on returning from a duty, trip to Samoa, and latterly had been laid_ up at his sister's residence in Dannevirke. Mr Thomson, who was 50 years of nge, was well known, and very popular in journalistic circles throughout New Zealand. He leaves a widow and a son. CAPTAIN E. B. THORNBER. The "Dolphin and Guild Gazette," the journal of the Imp >rial Merchant Service Guild, announces the death from heart failure of Captain E. Barker Thornber, tvho was a well-known officer of the New Zealand Shipping Company som;> years ago. He retired *rom the sea to take tip the business of a nautical instructor, and ho was subsequently appointed Principal of the Navigation Department of the Robert Gordon Technical College at Aberdeen.

Privates advice was received Into on Sitimlny of tho. doath of Mr William Boyirke, whip-h took plnre at his son's residence, Wnngnnui." Mr Bmrke was for a long timr> a stationmaster on the Canterbury ra'hvays, and later was farming at Clianeys..