OBITUARY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2003, 20 December 1921, Page 4

OBITUARY.

MR. HENRY STEAD. News has been received by wireless from the s.a. Marama of the death, on the voyage from San Francisco, of. Mr Henry Stead, proprietor and editor of Stead’s Review, the well-known Australian periodical published in. Melbourne. Mr Stead, who was re-, turning from a health-recruiting trip to America, after a serious breakdown from overwork, died on the Marama on the 10th December and was buried; at Papeete. Mrs Stead, who had come over from Melbourne by the Tahiti to join her husband In Wellington, received the intimation of her husband’s death from Melbourne, where the radio message had been sent, only a day ago and the shock was naturally very great. With the late Mr Stead was travelling his secretary, who will arrive by the Marama to-morrow. The immediate cause of death is not known.

The late Mr Henry Stead was the,’ son of the late William T. Stead, the founder of the English Review of Reviews, who met his death in the' Titanic disaster in 1912. Mr Henry Stead was born at Darlington, England, on the 31st October, 1875, educated at University College, London, and for fifteen years worked with his father, travelling all over the world as a journalist. He was responsible, for Stead’s publishing house, London, and was editor of the many series of books issued by it. With his father he published the Courrier de la Conference at The Hague in French during a former Peace Conference. In his‘ time he interviewed President Diaz,of Mexico, a and many other notables. He founded in Melbourne the Review of Reviews for Australasia, which subsequently became Stead’s Review, and during the war attracted much • attention by hie pungent criticism of affairs. His death will leave a gap in Australasian journalism.