REV. DR FISON.

Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 28

REV. DR FISON.

MELBOURNE, December 30. . . The death is reported of the Rev, Db Fison, the well-known, etlsoolegisii, and erWesleyan missionary at Fiji.

The Rev. liorimer Kaon,' M.A., D.©., vmi' educated at Oaius College, Cambridge, and entered the. Wesleyan minisfcrj in. 1164. He was appointed to Fiji, whare ',h» lafcourecl for 18 years, and was principal of the Navuloa Institution' for training^ native minietere. He was engaged in nunfsterial -work at, Hawthorne and Flemißfffean, vic> to'ria, and was editor of the Speeftarfcor from 1888 fco 190S- While .in Fiji _ le Koaß.ii K£» ethnological work, and published some of the results of his researohea in a. series of> papers which ho contributed to "the journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He wrote a -treatise on -the Jfcnd tenure 61 Fiji. In with I>r' A. W. Howitt, he publiehedl "Kamilerd and Kumai," a standard work on Australian ethnology, . recording the fkrsfc scientino and- comprehensive inquiry into -•the organisation of fcho, Australian nativetribes. He was also the author of "Taleel of Old Fiji?* ''He 'attended byapeojal invitation as a representative of Atfefaralasian' ! ecience the meeting' of the ' British Aeooc&f tion at Oxford in 1094, and in.1905 :was &3^ the British Government granted a pension of £150 per annum out' of the' Civil Lm* for his distinguished services . to , anthropology <

BRUSSELS, January 1. M. De Trooz, the Premier of Belgium^ is dead.

PARIS," January I, M. Gulaot-Dessaigne, deputy^ for Clerv mont-Ferrand; and Minister of. 'Justice in' OH. Cletaenoeau's Cabinet, died from Bearti disease while learyig the Senate yesterday. ,He was talking with a political opponent at the. moment he was cut down*.