OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 13

OBITUARY.

BISHOP OP LIMERICK. (BT CABLE—PKESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (AUBTSALUS AND H.S. CABLE AS3OCIATIO3.) LONDON,. July 3. The death is announced of the Most Rev. Denis Hallinan, Eoman Catholic Bishop of Limerick. [The Most Rev. Denis Hallinan was born in County Limerick in 1849 and educated at the Irish College in Eome. He became a priest in 1874, was curate of Newcastle West 1875-86, and of St. Michael's, Limerick, 1886-94; parish priest of St. Mary's, Limerick, 189498, and of Newcastle "West 1898-1918. He was appointed Domestic Prelate to the Pope in 1900 and was consecrated Bishop of Limerick in 1918.]

COMMISSIONER T. H. HOWARD. (BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGSTT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND li.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, July 3

The death is announced of Mr T. H. Howard, formerly Commissioner for the Salvation Army in Australasia. [T. Henry Howard was .born at Walsall in July, 1849, and entered the Salvation Army as an officer in 1881. From 1884 to 1892 he was Commissioner for Australasia, and in the latter year he was appointed director of field work in the United Kingdom. Later he was principal of the International Training College in Clapton, London, and afterwards Foreign Secretary. Commissioner Howard was Chief of the Staff of the Salvation Army from 1912 to 1919, when he was placed on the retired list. He leaves a widow and three sons.]

MR ARTHUR WILLEY, M.P. (»T CABLE—PBES3 ASBOCIATJOIf—COPTMSKT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION) LONDON, July 3. The death is announced of Mr Arthur Willey, M.P. (Conservative, Leeds). MR H. WELL. (BS CABLE—PBEBS ASSOCIATIOH—COPTBIOHT.) (AtrSTBALIAjr AHD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received July 4th, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 3. Mr H. Well, formerly of the Department of Internal Affairs in New Zealand, died in Jersey of blood-poison-ing. Mr James Moncrieff, well-known in the Masonic, craft, and secretary of a number of cheese and dairy factories, fell dead off his bicycle at Carterton on Monday, when cycling homo to lunch. Mr William Dixon Buddie, for 21 years a resident of Waihi, and formerly of Auckland, passed away at Waihi on Sunday night, in his eighty-third year. Deceased, who had been ailing for some time, was a son of the late Rev. Thomas Buddie, one of the early missionaries, and a brother of the late Mr Thomas Buddie, of the well-known Auckland legal firm of Buddie, Button and Co. For the greater part of his business life he was an accountant, beingg for many years with Messrs T. and S. Morrin and Co., ironmongers, of Auckland, and was also secretary to tho late Mr Thomas Morrin. Mr Buddie, who was predeceased by his wife some twelve months ago, leaves a grown-up family, his sons being Messrs Frank and Leslie' Buddie, and his daughters Mesdames Edward Anderson (Auckland), Frank M. Jervis (Wellington), and R. Campbell (Christchurch).

Cabled advice has beon received in Dunedin of the death, after a long period of poor health, of Mr Hermand Milford Wayne. Mr Wayne was the second son of an early Otago pioneer, the late Mr Frederick Wayne, and was born in March, 1869, at "The Grange," Waihemo. His father having bought the Glenledi Station on tho coast, near Milton, he was educated partly at the Milton High School, also of Orakanui College, Blueskin, under the late Mr R. J. Stanford, and when it opened, at the Waitaki High School. After working for a few years in the National Bank at Milton, he went back to station life, and later managed a farm at Wanganui. This he loft to join the staff of the Department of Agriculture. Being' an earnest mission worker, he left New Zealand and, amongst other ■ work, was associated with a society that arranged special services for children throughout England. Of late years, in spite of. illhealth, he spent his time in distributing gospels and visiting among the French peasants along the base of the Pyrenees. He was the author of several religious brochures, both in French and English, which have had a wide circulation. He married in 1906 a daughter of the late Rev. Edward Burridge, formerly rector of Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire, who survives him.

News has been received in Dunedin of the death in Sydney of Mr A. W. Dawson, who was well known in commercial circles in New Zealand owing to his regular business visits to this country. Of a genial disposition, he was well liked by all who knew him, and his death will cause deep regret among his numerous friends.