OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17408, 20 March 1922, Page 2

OBITUARY.

The death is announced of Mr Charles Stubbs, formerly secretary and accountant of the Wellington ''Evening Post." The deceased, who was in his 82nd year, had been suffering for, some time from heart trouble. He was a native of London, and arrived in New Zealand in 1882. For some years he was accountant to the Oroua Downs Estate in the Manawato. Before joining the commercial staff of the "Evening Post" in 1892, as secretary and accountant, where he remained until his retirement in 1918, he held a similar position on the "New Zealand Times." He was highly esteemed and respected by all who kliew him for his kindly nature, conscientious demotion to dutv, and his high standard of honour. He came of a military family, and was himself a member of the Honourable Artillery Company, one of the oldest corps in the world, which had a fine record in the late war. He leaves a widow and one daughter. His only son. the late Lieutenant Eric Stubbs, was killed in France shortly before the Armistice. Mr Borneo Gardner, the well-known professional whistler, who was born in Gisborno, is dead. He was attacked by pneumonia and died in London last week. He was educated jA Wellington College, and when quite young he developed a talent for music which he expressed as a whistler. Any boy can whistle, but young Gardner had great ambition to become a .fine exponent of the art. He preferred operatic seleotiolns, particularly tljfflse of a florid character abounding in cadenzas land similar embellishments. So successful was he, and so in earnest in the development of his gifts along classical lines, that he adopted whistling as a profession. He began at amateur entertainments, and frequently appeared at the Wellington Savage and Orphans' Clubs and charitable entertainments. Then he secured engagements in vaudeville companies in Australia and subsequently in London, South South America, and the Continent.

Cabled advice has been received from Sydney that Mr Mendelssohn Pickles, head of the firm of Joseph Pickles ana Son, Ltd., died last week.