OBITUARY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 10

OBITUARY

MR ROBERT FRASER Mr Robert Frascr, one of the oldest and best-known figures in the Mackenzie district, died at .Chamberlain, Albury, on Saturday. Mr Fraser, who was 78 years of age. was the second son of Mr Hugh Fraser, an early Mackenzie country settler? the original holder of the Ben Ohau and Black Forest stations. Later the family went to Timaru and lived at "Blairberg," Olipua road. Mr Robert Frascr was a ( former scholar at the first public school in Timaru, situated on the site | of the drill hall, and he was a founda- , tion pupil of the Timaru Main School. He spent many years in the Mackenzie country and inter took up land j at Opawa Downs, near Albury, which ; lie farmed successfully for several 1 years. His family. Misses Kathleen and Maureen Fraser and Messrs Robert, Edmund, and Maurice Fraser live in the district. Mr Fraser was a lover of the collie, and for many years his dogs were noted throughout the Dominion for their performances at trials. He was a keen supporter of the Albury collie dog trial. Of a retiring disposition. Mr Frascr was not actively engaged in public affairs, but took his part in the development of the district.

MR R. M. MADILL HAMILTON, March 26. The death occurred on Saturday evening, at Hamilton, of Mr Robert Marcus Madill, aged 03. He was a well-known iigure at stock sales throughout the district over a number of j cars. COLONEL ARTHUR LYNCH ,i:-iifi> ,':'--. A!-.siH i.-.ThO; ■- :.\ ti.ECTf.lc TKl.lX.i'Al'li -U>rY:tIOIIT.( LONDON, March 2D. The death has occurred of Colonel Arthur Lynch, physician, author, and politician. He suffered a relapse after a recent operation. During the Boer Wiir he was colonel of the Irish Brigade No. 11 on the Boer side. He was •i colonel in the British Army during tile European War. I Colonel Arthur Lynch, who was condemned to death for fighting against Britain and inter fought for her. was born at Smythesdale, Australia, and educated at Ballarat, Melbourne University, Berlin University, Ihe Beaujon Hospital, Paris, and St. Mary's Hospital. London. In Melbourne he qualified as a civil engineer. In Paris, in addition to studying medicine, he gained an electrical en-

mincer's diploma, while in London he qualified as both physician and surgeon. He also found time for literary Aorlc. publishing in 1891 a work on Modern Author.*, French, German, and Ln<;lish, and in the next lew years Approaches: The Poor- Scholar's Quest for a Mecca, A Koran of Love. Our Poets, Religio AihieUv, and Human Documents. C:i die outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he joined the Boer forces, and was made colonel of the Irish Brigade formed of Anglophobe Irirhmcti who had settled in the Transvaal. Kscaphm capture when the British occupied thai rcßion. he settled in Paris, and while there was elected TvT.P. lor Galway. On goinn to London to take his seat he was arrested, and in January. IM3, sentenced to death for hifih t;va-'<> >. The sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life, b.it in 1904 he'was released. Three years later he \i af. granted a free pardon. His coun:il at the trial was Horace Avery 'later Lord Justice Avory;. Lynch aKvays held that he had done nothing dishonourable. Republicanism was !iis political veliaion, and he fought as a Republican. Moreover, he declared that an unwritten agreement was made by Roberts and Kitchener v.hh the Boer leaders before the peace treaty was signed that he and other British subjects who fought on the Boer side should no free. Lynch, vho sat as M.P. for West Clare from IQM to 1913. was a colonel on the 3ritish side in the world war. Among his many other boows are:—Psychology. A New Swstcm. Purpose and Evolution. Sonnets of the Banner and the Star, Roman Philosoohiquc (in French*, Ireland: Vital Hour. O'Rouike the Great, and My Life Story. 1