OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3017, 10 January 1912, Page 26

OBITUARY.

MR ALFRED TENNYSON DICKENS. MELBOURNE, January 4. Advice has been received here of the death in New York of Mr Alfred Tennyson Dickens, a son of the famous novelist. He was for many years a resident of Australia. NEW YORK, January 3. Alfred Tennyson Dickens died her© from an acute attack of indigestion. He was engaged on a lecturing tour, and was taken ill on Monday night in the lecture hall. He was removed to his hotel, where he recovered temporarily, and was preparing to go to Kingston to fulfil an engagement when he collapsed and died. ADMIRAL EVANS. WASHINGTON, January 4. The death, of Admiral Evans is announced. Acute indigestion was the cause of death. MAJOR-GENERAL ICHIJI. TOKIO, January 4. The death has occurred of Majorgeneral Kosuke Ichiji. Maior-genenal Ichiji was of the artillery branch of the Japanese army, and was born in 1854. Ho entered the army in 1871, and was appointed to the General Staff, and was on the staff of General Oyama in the Chino-Japaneee war. He was afterwards military atachee to the Japanese Legation at London and at Seoul. In the Russo-Japanese war he was chief staff officer under General Nogi. MR JUSTICE COHEN. LONDON, January 6. Mr Justice Cohen, of New South Wales, is dead. He died on board the steamer Frederick der Grasse as he was returning from an extended holiday in Europe. The Hon. Henry Emanuel Cohen has been a judge of the Supremo Court of New South Wales since September, 1896, and was the first president of the Arbitration Court, from 1902 to 1905. The son of Abraham and Sophie Cohen, he was born at Port Macquarie on December 1, 1840, and' wae educated at a private "school. After being engaged in mercantile pursuits for some years, he proceeded to London in 1863 to study law, and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1871, and to the New South Wales Bar in the sajne year. He was member of the Legislative Assembly for West Maitland for the periods 1 1875-80 and 1883-5. He was Colonial Treasurer in the Farnell Ministry in 1877-8, and Minister of Justice in the Stuart Government during IGB3-5, after which he retired from Parliament. He declined nomination to the Legislative Council, and was District Court Judge in 1881-2 and acting judge of the Supreme Court in 1895-6, when he was permanently appointed to tho bench. From 1834 to 1886 he was president of the Great Synagogue of Sydney, and had been chairman of the Board of Management of the Hospital Saturday Fund since its inauguration in 1894. In 1884 ho married Sophie Frank, of Hildeshem.