OBITUARY.
Press Association—>By Telegraph-Copyright. BRISBANE, Juno 30. (Received Julio 30, at 9.42 a.m.) Jlr J. B, Stophons is dead; oged 67 years. [James Bmnton Stephens was i native of Barrowetowne??, Linlithgowshire, where he \m born in 1835. He went to Queensland in 1666, Mil w«s engaged as a private tutor for somo years. Subsequently lie entered tlio service of the Queensland Education Department,, .and after having hold' tho position of head..teacher of tho Ashgroye School, hfc was Jraitaferred to a clerkship m tho Colonial, Secretary's Office. Ho had contributed in prose ami in ■ verse to the Quconslandor,. Australasian, and Melbourne Review, in which his blank verse poem Muto Discourse" first saw the light. Ho was regarded'aa the wittiest of Australian poot3. " Convict •Once," hi.i most ambitious pocm { waa published by Macmillan, and " Tho Godolphin'' Arabian " and " Miscellaneous Poems" by Watson, Ferguson, and Co., of Brisbane." He w'r'oto two novelettes of Australian life, onn of which, entitled "A Hundred l'oumlf," was published by Samuel Mullen, of Melbourne. The clluso of death was angina pectoris.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12393, 1 July 1902, Page 5
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