OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17335, 25 November 1916, Page 11

OBITUARY.

SIR GEORGE WHITE DEAD. By Telegraph.—Press ABsocin,tion.~Copyright. Auatraliaji and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 23. The death is announced of Sir George White, pioneer of electric street ■ traction. HON CHARLES'BOOTH. (Received November 24, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON. November 24. The death of tho Right Hon Charles Booth' :'s announced. (The Right Hon Charles Booth is best known as the pioneer of Old Age Pensions, a tubject on which he wrote extensively in tho early nineties. Ho was born in Liverpool in 1840, rind married a daughter of Charles Zachary Maeaulay in 1871. Ho was a partner in Alfred Booth and Co., Liverpool, from 1562 to the timo of : his death, and was president of the Royal Statisticial Society from 1892-4. Among his published works are: —" Lifo and Labour of tho People in London," in a number of separate hooks dealing with different aspects of the subject; "The Endowment of Old Age," "Tho Aged Poor" and "Old Ago Pensions." He was mado a Privy Councillor in 1904. Tho Hon Charles Booth was a Fellow of the Royal Society,, and held honorary degrees conferred on Kim by the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Liverpool.) JACK LONDON. NEW YORK, November 23. The death is announced of Jack London at Glen Ellen, California, from uremia. (Jack London was only forty years of age, but into that forty years ho had compressed varied adventures and a vast amount of literary work. He was born in San Francisco, and he was in turn sailor, goldminer, tramp, writer, Socialist lecturer, journalist and amateur explorer. Tu his search for adventures among the marine population of San Francisco he soon lost his ideal romance, and replaced it with tho real romance of life. Ho cruised along the Pacific Coast as salmon fisher, he was an oyster "pirate," a fish patrolman, a longshoreman and general bay-faring adventurer. When he was seventeen he shipped on a schooner as ablo seaman, and went up to Behring Sea sealhunting. Later, he tramped over' thousands of miles in the United States and Canada, and suffered more than one gaol experience because ho possess-, ed no fixed place of abode and no visible means of support. This vagaboud career ho repeated in the East End of London. He went over the Chilcoot Pass with the first of the Klondike rush of 1597. Tn 1904 he went as war correspondent to Japan, Korea and Manchuria, and lie was a war correspondent in Mexico' ten years later. A cniise across the Pacific and through the Solomons and other groups in 1906, in a 50ft ketch, the Snark, supplied him with much "copy" for stories of ad- ■ tare. Jack London wrote nearly forty hooks, tho best of which were "White Fang," " A Daughter of the Snows, "Tho Call of the; Wild," "The, Sea Wolf," "Adventure" and "A Son of the Sun." One of bis most recent novels'was "The Mutiny of the Elsmore," which was the outcome of, a voyage round Capo Horn in the American four-masted ship Dirigo.) . ROBERT FATON. Mr. Robert Paton, a well-known Peninsula resident, who died on Sunday, was born in Fifeshire in 1556 and arrived with his parents in the ship Eastern Empire at Lvttelton in 1865. Mr and*Mrs Paton afterwards came on to Pigeon Bay. where they took up land. Mr R. Paton spent his youth working on the laud and in the bush, arid then took up land on bis own account. For some years he was licensee of the Hill Top Howl. He then purchased the Penin-.ula coaching line from Mr B. Barker, and was noted for tho line stud of coach horses he kept. He joined the Akaroa Lodge of Oddfellows at an early age and remained a member of the Order until his death. Ho was also for several years a director of.the Peninsula, Saleynrds Company. Mrs Paton died some years ago. Ho leaves one, son and one daughter. The funeral took place on Wednesday at Duvauchellj, and the very large attendance testified to tho esteem ho was held by all his neighbours and friends. JOSEPH DEAN. On Thursday Mr Joseph Dean, the oldest resident of South Canterbury, passed away at Woodbury, near GeraJdine. Mr Dean, who was a son of Mr Dean, of Pnrau, Lvttelton, came to New Zealand in=Jßso and shortly afterwards visited the sit-e of Tiraaru. Later he entered the service of the Messrs Rhodes, at the Levels Statiou, and remained in their employ for a couple of years, when he returned to Purau and married. After that ho opened tho ArowbenMa Hotel, and later became landlord of the Crown Hotel, Temukn. Afterwards he took the hotel at Woodbury. Later he worked throughout the district for some years as a carpenter, and ultimately settled down at Woodbury, where he was much respected. Ho leaves a widow and several children. Mr Dean was eightythree years of ago.