OBITUARY.

Mataura Ensign, 2 July 1914, Page 5

OBITUARY.

LORD WEMYSS.

BT ILEOTEIC TELEGRAPH - COPYBIQHI, PEE UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION LONDON,- June 30. The deatli is reported, in his, 96th year, of the Earl of Weatyss.

FrainoisCharteris, Earl of Wemyre and March, was born in August, 1818. He was educated at Eton, and tcok his B.A. degree, at Oxford. While Lord Elcho he represented East Gloucestershire in the House of Commons from 1841 to 1846 and Haddingtonshire from 1847 to 18S3. In 1852-55 he held office as Junior Lord of the Treasury under the Earl of Aberdeen. He was at the time of his death A.D.C. to the Kinp. Lord Elcho,'who is 5" years of age, succeeds his father in the: earldom.

MR S. P. HYATT,

LONDON, July 1, The death is reported of Mr S. P. Hyatt, the well-known novelist.

Stanley Portal Hyatt was born in 1877, so that he was only 37 years cf age at the time of his death. After working as a youngster rfn a sheep statical, in New South Wales, Mr Hyatt went to Mataheleland. 'He wrasi at tbi age cf 22 the largest native trader in Eastern Mashonaland, and had also a large .number of transport wagons engaged. He explored th* central part of Mozambique for the Portuguese authorities, and when he returned to Mashonaland he found ;his busijiets' Tuined through an outlbreak of rinderpest. He found his way to the Pliiliippines, and was the only Englishman who went through the campaign. In 1905 ho went to England, and after struggling for some ti'me\secured a publisher for _ his first novel, "Marcus Hay," which scored an almost instant success. Other novels followed in quick succession, and Mr Hyatt was recognised as one of the most jJopular novelists, his knowledge of Soith and East Africa standing hhni in good stead.