OBITUARY.

Evening Star, Issue 13144, 28 December 1908, Page 6

OBITUARY.

J. P. SHERIDAN, ACTOR. i Sydney cable reports the death at Newcastle (suddenly) of Mr John P. Sheridan, the well-known actor. The deceased had made a world-wide reputation in the part of Widow O'Brien in ' Pun on tie Biistol.' t He first appeared in the part in Dunedin at Christmas, 1884, and again at Christmas, 1890. Three years later he produced the ' Cinderella,' and in 1905 staged the pantomime ' Whittington and His Cat.' It was on this visit that Little Gulliver, then playing the-Cat, died apd was buried in the Southern Cemetery! Mr Sheridan was last her jn June last with a revival of the pantomime 'Cinder!.ella;":; ■.-'-■ ■ v-v. .-..- DRBAKEWELL. An Auckland message announces the death of Dr R. H. Bakewell. He.had an apoplectic seizure, and passed;.; away.Vqn Saturday night in his seventy-seventh years. The deceased was ..well' known;in Dunedyi, where he practised for -several years before settling in Auckland, i ;He was a prolific writer to the Press, and entered willingly into any controversy of. >piiblic (interest. He wrote chiefly on educational and juro-medical subjects, ''/,>■."'■■■",'■■'