OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 31

OBITUARY.

SIR LEPEL GRIFFIX. LONDON, March 10. Six Lepel Griffin, a famous Indian offiehl and Envoy Extraoi dinary to Peking in 1885, is dead, aged 68 yeais. [Sir Lepel Henry Griffin, X.C.5.1., neld the insignia of the first class of the Imperial Persian Order of the Lion and the Sun. He served much in the Punjab, and was chief political officer in Afghanistan in 1880. He was Envoy Extraordinary to Peking m I&ys, and became interested in a number of companies concerned in Eastern trade. He wad" 68 years oT age, and was the author of 'a large number of books and articles oh the countries of the East.] REV. BENJAMIN WAUGH. LONDON, March 13. The Rev. Benjamin Waugh, Congregational minister and famous for his selfsacrificing work on behalf of children and their protection from cruelty, is dead, aged 69 years. The Rev. Mr Waugh was l<oin at Settle on February £0, 1839. He followed business pursuits from 1853 till 1£62, and then attended college for three years, after which he became a Congregational minister. He served iti the ministry for 22 years — from 1855 until 1887. He was a member of the SchoDl Board for London from 1870 till 1876, and promoted to N.S.P.C.C. in 1384. He served as a director of the society from 1889 till 1905, and in the latter year he iva<, appointed consulting director. His publications include "The Gaol Cradle, Who Rocks It? a plea for the Abolition of Juvenile Imprisonment" and "The Child of Nazareth." Mr Waugh was editor of the Sunday Magazine from 1874 till 1890. DEATH OF A VETERAN. ASH BURTON, March 15. An old Imperial soldier nan.cd James Larkin, an inmate cf the Old Men's Home, died early on Saturday morning at the age of 76 years. Deceased joined the 86th Regiment in 1850, and went through the Indian mutiny under Biigudier Stewart. He then joined Ihe 83rd Regiment, and subsequently the 67th Regiment (flampctead Foot Fusiliers), with which he was before Peking with the allied English and French armies in 1860. He also served in Japan and urnis, and held the Indian mutiny medal and the mudal and clasp for good conduct and long service. He arrived in the Dominion in 1874, and will be accorded a military funerai to-morrow.