OBITUARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19066, 11 January 1924, Page 7

OBITUARY.

REV. DR WAGE. Pres* Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 9. (Received Jan. 10, at 10.55 p.ra.) The death is announced of Dr Wace, Dean of Canterbury, in hia 88th year.—A. and N.Z. Cable. The Vorv Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., was bora in London on December 10, 1836. and was educated at Marlborough, Rugby, King’s College, London, aihl Brasonose Col lege Oxford. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1861, and he'd van, ous curacies in London, being chaplain at Lincoln’s Inn in 1872 and preacher m 1880. From 1875 to 1896 Ho was prominently connected with King’s College, London, where he waa professor of ecclesiastical history and subsequently principal. Both as preacher and writer Dr Waco, who took his D.D. degree in 1883, became conspicuous in the theological world. He Was Boyle lecturer in 1874 and Bampton lecturer in 1879; and besides publishing several volumes of sermona, he was co-editor of the Dictionary of Christian Biography and editor •of the Speaker’s Commentary on the Apocrypha. Despite his great age he retained groat vigour of mind, and during recent years published several works bearing on the effects of the war on religion. As a champion of historic orthodoxy ho took a leading pare some years ago in the controversy with contemporary Rationalism in all its forms, and firmy upheld the importance of denominational education. In 1881 he was given a prebendal stall at St. Paul s, and in 1889 was appointed a chaplin-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. When he resigned the principalship of King’s College Hi 1896'he was made rector of St. Michael’s. Cornhill; and in 1903 ho became Dean of Canterbury in succession to Dr Farrar. MR ALLAN MTNTOSH. Mr Allan MTntosh, of Shag Point, whoso Q ea.cn was recently announced, was well known as one of the last remaining pioneers of the coal mining industry of Utago. ' He was born in Glasgow, 1842. After having gained mining experience in Scotland, he came to the colonies in 1862 in the Eastern Empire, landing at Sydney. He worked for throe years at Uie Newcastle mines, but was then attracted to New Zealand by the gold diggings and spent some time on the fields at Hokitika and afterwards of Macraes, without meeting with much success. Again turning bis attention to coal mining, he was one of the first to develop the Green Island coal mines at Fairfield, where he bad charge of a min© owner bv Mr Andrew Pollock. After visiting the New South Wales mines for 18 months, Mr MTntosh was. on his return to Dunedin, appointed manager of the Shag Point mine, then owned by Mr Rowley, and this he controlled until 1878. The coal from it was sent away either m bullock drays or by the steamer Shag, which made periodical visits under the charge of Captain Wing, later well known on Lake Wakatipu. These visits of the steamer Shag wore ironortant incidents in the lives of the inhabitants who always turned out to see her piloted into the harbour by Mr Thomas Frew. The size of the harbour was such that when the iteamer was swinging round she almost filled the port, there being only a few feet, to snare on either side. After retiring from the Shag Point mine, Mr MTntosh entered into business as n general storekeeper, but later prospected and developed the Allandale rolliories in partnership w : th Sir tames Allen, and was managing director of them until the closing down of the mines a few years ago. He was always keenlv interested in the prospecting of coal fie’ds. He was married in 1869, and his wife predeceased him by 16 veers. He loaves a family of four sons and five danrrhfers to mourn their loss. The two married dnuehters are Mrs A. S G’Handers. nt Kaitaneata, and A Tvs E. R. P ith. of Poor'll. One son. .Tames, was killed on Gallipoli, and anpHior .Tohn. was ar-ide-nl"l'v killed in the Allandale mine AH MTntosh lived for 53 years at Shag Point.