OBITUARY.

Evening Star, Issue 10705, 18 August 1898, Page 3

OBITUARY.

The announcement of the death of Mrs Fruer, reliob of the late Captain Thomas Fraaer, will lie received with regret in many place* beaidea Donedin. A* a colonist sinco * 1888, the deceased lady was well known in Auokland, Christchurch, and Wellington ; and in her travels of late years between this colony and Australia, aud but recently to the Old Country, she left respectful memoriae over a wide circle of friends. Her death took place this morning, at her residence, St. David street, after a brief illness. The surviving members of the family are Mr T. A. Eraser, Mr J. F. M. Fraser, Mr Ivan Fraaer (of New South Wales), and Mr Christian Fraser. The funeral will take place in Wellington, at the Hobson street cemetery, where the late Captain Fraser was interred.

Another of the pioneer settlers has passed away in the person of Mr Adam Begg, who died at hla residence at Anderson Bay last evening after a brief illness of twenty-four hoars, yesterday, strange to say, being his eighty-sixth birthday. The deceased was a native of Straiton pariah, Ayrshire, Scotland. He arrived in Otago by the ship Blundell in 1848, and exercised his right of choioe at Anderson Bay. Ha started the first flour-mill in Otago. He also made large purchases of land in the Hilleod district, where three of his sons follow the occupation of farmers. Two other sons (Matthew Begg, of CUkden and Begg, ami Thomas Bagg) reside here. He also leaves two married daughters—Mrs Jsiines Somcrvilla and Mrs Wilson.

Gerald Henry Supple, whose death at Auckland occurred yesterday, at one time occupied a prominent position on the Melbourne Press. In the early sixties he was one of the principal leader writers on the staff of the * Age.' In the columns of that paper th< re one morning appeared an article of a personal and viudictive kind which reflected on Supple's college career. Supple fixed the authorship on a Mr Smith, a journalistand member of the Legislative Assembly, and meeting him in Bourke street drew his revolver. In the meUe which ensued a publican named Roche, we think, who had been an ex-detective, was mortally wounded. Supple was tried and convicted of this man's murder, but the capital sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, mainly, it was believed at the time, through the influence of Sir C. O. (then Mr) Duffy, who was Colonial Secretary, and had been a college friend and fellow journalist of Supple's in Ireland. Many years later Supple was released from prison. Mennel says of him: He was poet as well as journalist. As a young man he took part in the '4S movement in Ireland, and was a member of the Irish Confederation. He contributed some stirring poems to the ' Nation,' when under the editorship of Sir Charles Gavan Daffy. Four of them—' Sir Morrogh's Ride,' •The Raid of Fitzmaurice,' 'The Sally from Salerno,' and ' Columbus'—are included in 'The Ballads of Ireland' collected by Edmund Hayes. 'Columbus' is a very striking and sonorous poem, resembling in many respects ' The Dream of Dampier,' which, in after years, he contributed to the * Melbourne Review,' and by which he is best known in the colonies. In Melbourne, to which he emigrated about thirty years ago, Mr Supple practised at the Bar, and contributed articles to the Melbourne 'Age,' 'Australasian,' and other journals. __