OBITUARY.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13857, 18 April 1917, Page 2

OBITUARY.

INVENTOR OF ESPERANTO,

(Cable—P?c& Association—Copyright.) (Reuter's Telegrams,) AMSTERDAM, April 16. Dr Ludwig Lazarc Zanicnhof, the inventor of Esperanto, is dead.

[Dr Zameuhof was born in Grodno, Russia, in 1859. He practised as an oculist at Warsaw.]

REV. P. W. FAIRCLOUGH,

i(l'er Press Association.) 1 CHRISTCHURCH. April 17. The Rev. P. W. Fairclougli, a wellknown Methodist minister, died tonight. He /WCst into a private hospital on Saturday to undergo an operation for gall stones, The operatiou was very successful, and Mr Fairclough promised to make n good recovery; but to-day he was seized with heart failure which resulted in death.

[The Rev. P. W. Fairclough, F.R.A.S., came to New Zealand from Victoria when a boy, followed gold-mining od the West Coast for sonic years, and became a member of the, Methodist Church at Stafford, eight miles from llnl 'iHkn, where lit: was then mining. When abo'-'i seventeen years of age lie to preach in that mining town. After some years of study he was duly received into the ministry, aiid in 1874 - went to his which was Timaru. Ho had thus been forty-three years in the active work of the ministry,, and intended retiring at tho end of the present year. During his long ministry he ji&rvcd terms in many parts of tho Do- " minion, and- was at the time of his death minister in Kaiapoi for his third term. He was minister of Trinity Church, Dunedin, for'two terms of live '•ears each, and also served for four years in Taranaki street. Wellington. who knew Mr Fairclough intimately realised his worth, and both in Kaiapoi and Trinity Church lie was appreciated. In 1597 he was president of the Conference, and was chairman of- various Synod? for some fourteen years. Every post of honour that the Church could bestow upon him had been his. Possessed of special astronomical knowledge, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society many years ago. He had a ready pen, and excelled as a preacher and lecturer. His epigrammatic style and original thought particularly captivated the student and thinker. His. reading and knowledge were profound, and few in this Dominion had sucli s grasp of Imperial affairs as he. For over twenty-five years he had beer a regular writer for some of the great city dailies, being a thorough in the power tho press and in the capacity of the press for good or ill. He will be greatly missed and dearly mourned, not only by nis own family and brethren in the mitiistVy, but bv thousands of people who have come under his ministry and striking and powerful personality. Ho lea\ es a widow, due daughter anil three sons.]