OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 67, 13 December 1926, Page 8

OBITUARY

MONSIGNOR WALSHE By Telegraph.—press association. Westport, December 11. The death took place early this morning at O’Connor Home of Monsignor Walshe, 83 years of age, the oldest ordained priest in the Dominion, after an attack of bronchitis. A native of County Kilkenny, Ireland, he arrived in 'New Zealand 62 years ago. He came out with Bishop Pompalier as a student and was ordained by that bishop with the late Monsignor O’Reilly, of Thames, at the age of 23. He was then transferred to the West Coast. He has been in charge of the Westport parish for fifty-six years and resigned six years ago on account of ill-health. He celebrated his diamond jubilee as a priest last February. “GRAND OLD MAN OF SERBIA” (Rec. December 12, 5.5 p.m.) Belgrade, December 11. M. Nikolai Pastitch, the grand old man of Serbia, died in harness at the age of 83. He was seized by an apoplectic fit just as he had received a summons from the King to form a cabinet with the support of the Radical party, the present Radical Prime Minister, M. Usunovitch, having failed to reform his cabinet after a political crisis “Times.” [M. Pastitch began his political life as a revolutionary and was sentenced to death forty years ago for leading a rising against King Milan. He escaped and five years later became Premier. Since then he has been almost uninterruptedly the leading figure in Jugo-Slav affairs. It was his hand that guided the helm during the stormv period of the Balkan Wars in 1912 and 1913, out of which Serbia, as.it then was, emerged with enhanced prestige and power. His faith and leadership helped to sustain his people through the Great War, when Serbia was twice invaded and finally conquered by the Austrians and Bulgarians. An old man of over 70, he crossed the mountains of Albania, on foot in the great retreat of the decimated Serbian army during-the bitter cold of the winter of 1915, to return again in the winter of 1918, and at the Peace Conference helped to mould the greater Jttgo-Slavia.]

MELBOURNE EDITOR (Rec. December 12, 5.5 p.m.) Melbourne, December 12. Mr. Gottlieb Frederick Schulter, editor of the Melbourne “Age,” died suddenly from heart failure. Deceased, whose hobby was carpentering, was found dead alongside the bench where he had been working. [Mr. Schuler was born at sea on February 21, 1853, during the voyage of his parents returning to Stuttgart, Germany He arrived in Australia about two years afterwards After journalistic experience elsewhere, he joined the literary staff of the “Age” in 1879. For tnanv rears he directed the paper’s Parliamentary staff and became editor at the beginning of 1900.]