OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 69

OBITUARY.

The death is announced of a well-known novelist, Guy ISTewell Boothby. He was bom at Adelaide (South Australia.) in 1867, and was therefore 37 years of age. In 1891 he crossed Australia from north to south, and travelled some time in the East. He was a prolific author. His first work, "On the Wallaby, appeared in 1894. and was followed by "In Strangle Company " in the same year. The following year three novels from his pen were published, including " A Bid for Fortune. In 1896 " The Beautiful White Devil " and "Dr Nihila," probably two of his best known works) rnan'e their appearance. Tke dleath is announced, at the age of 63 years, of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid, author, joura&lisi, and general manager of Cassell and Co. He was editor of the Leeds Mercury from IS7O to 1887, and edUor of T4ie Speaker from its foundation until October, 1899. He was knighted " for services to letters, and politics" in 1894. He is the aulboi of several novels and other woiks, chiefly biographies.

The death is announced of the Earl of Morley (Albert Edmund Parker), Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords since 1889. He was born in 1543. Ho was Under-secretary for

War from 1880 to 1885, and was First Commissioner of Works m 18S6. He was the owner of a, number of pictuies by Sir Jcshua Reynolds.

Sir Martin Gasse'in, British Minister at Lisbon, is dead, aged 5S jeais By c.-ible we received news of the c^eath of Captain Middleton, the last Conservatne agent