THE YEAR’S DEATH TOLL

Evening Star, Issue 19444, 30 December 1926, Page 2

THE YEAR’S DEATH TOLL

Tlie year’s death list contains many illustrious names. Royalties and exRoy al ties who have, passed away include Queen Margharita (the Queen Mother of Italy), Mohammed VI. (cxSultan of Turkey, the ex-Emperor of Korea, and the Emperor of Japan. The Duke of Orleans, Pretender to the French throne, and Prince Napoleon Victor, who might have been a rival pretender, also died during the year. Departed statesmen include Viscount Kafo (Prime Minister of Japan), Mr John X. Merriman (exPremier of Capo Colony), the Earl of Dunraven and Lord Emmott (ex-Under-Secretaries for tho Colonies), and Nicolas Pashitch (Premier of Jugoslavia). Sir Timothy Coghlan (New South Wales Agent-General) and Mr Eugene Dobs (American Labor leader and Presidential candidate) belong also to the obituary list. Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium, who showed heroic qualities of statesmanship during tho war, has passed away. The Services have lost Admiral Sir Ernest Troubridge and Admiral Sir Wilmot Fawkes. Literature mourns Mr C. M. Doughty (explorer and author). Sir Sidney Lee, Sir George Forrest (historian), Mr W. L. George, Mr Perceval Gibbon, Mr Israel Zangwill, and Miss Sarah Doudney (novelists), Mr A. B. Walkley (dramatic critic), and Mr Edmund Gaudier (traveller and author). Science has lost Mr Luther Burbank, Sir James Cantlie (physician), and M. Emil© Coue (psychologist), and the drama Sir Squire Bancroft (actor-manager). Dr Charles W. Eliot, a famous American educationist, and Prpfefsqr Rijdolf

I Eucken (German philosopher) passed away during the year, which also saw the death of Mr Frederick R. Spofforth (cricketer). Leading New Zealanders whom death has claimed during the year include, among politicians, Sir James Garroli and Sir Arthur Myers (ex-Mmisters), Hon. W. J. Geddes, M.L.C., and Mr F. Pirani (ex-M.P.). The churcheshave lost Mother Mary Joseph Aubert (Catholic Home of Compassion, Wellington), Right Rev. Monsignors Maokay and Burke, Rev. James Paterson (ex-Modorator, Presbyterian' General Assembly), Rev. Dr William Morley (ex-president of the Methodist General Conference), Rev. H. R. Dewsbury (retired Methodist minister), Rev. A. W. Kinmont (Presbyterian), Rev. Josiah Ward (Methodist), and Rev. George M’Donald (Presbyterian minister, formerly of Otago). Educational losses include Mr C. E. Bevan Brown (ex-head master, Christchurch Boys’ High School), Professor Waters and Dr Raynor Bell. Mr J. C. Martin (ex-judge of the Supreme Court), and Mr W. H. E. Wanklyn (prominently associated during many years with racing) died during the year. Others well known to Dunedin or Otago who have passed away include Mr P. G. Pryde, Mr Wolf Harris (of London, but a benefactor of Dunedin institutions), Mr William Belcher (Labor leader), Mr William Peairose, Mr Henry Crust, Mr Thomas Chalmer, Mr Carl Otto, Mr Wilfrid Vivian, Police Superintendent Mathieson, Captain James Macfarlane (ex-hatbor master for Otago Harbor), Mr Robert Kermode Smith (Tarras), Mrs James Stevenson- (of Temuka, pioneer of tho Philip Laing), Mr John Gillies (.pioneer of the Philip Laing), Mrs Margaret Ferens (pioneer of the John Wickliffe), Mr Samuel Young (Tuapeka West), Mr William Souter (Waikouaiti), Mr Thomas Adam (of Waihola, old identity), and Captain Robert H. Neville (ex-commodore U.S.S. Company).