OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3102, 27 August 1913, Page 28

OBITUARY.

MR ROWLAND PICKERING. SYDNEY, August 25. The death of Mr Rowland Pickering, formerly turf editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, is announced. CAPTAIN CAREY. SYDNEY, August 25. Captain Carey, late commodore of the Union Company’s fleet, died to-day. [Captain Carey was for many years in the service of the Union Company, command ing various vessels. For some time he was on the San Francisco route, and he afterwards took command of the Moana on the Vancouver route, and held that position till about five years ago.] THE HON. JAMES BALFOUR. The Rev. Graham Balfour, of First Church, received by cable on Monday mornins the sad news of the death of his father, the Hon. James Balfour, M.L.C., of Melbourne, the cause of death being acute pneumonia. Mr Balfour. who was in his 85th year—he was born in Edinburgh on May 1C 1830 —was a prominent layman of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, and always took an active part, in all matters pertaining to the life and wo:!.; of the Church He was president of the Evangelisation Society of Australasia, and it was largely owing to his spirit of Christian aggression that the visit of Dr Torrey and Mr Alexander and the subsequent visits of Dr Chapman and Mr Alexander were arranged and the campaigns so successfully carried through. Mr Balfour. who was the son of John Balfour, of Leith (one of the Balfours of Pdr.g). was educated in Edinburgh Academy, and arrived in Australia in October. 1852. He was “the father” of hath the Victorian Legislative Chambers, siting as member for East Bourke in the Lower House from 1866 to 1868, and continuously as M.L.C. since 1374 He was Minister without portfoho in the Gillies-Deakjn Government. 1900. and the M'Lean Ministry, 1899-1900; member of the Board of Education, 1865-68; president of Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. 1885-86; and delegate to Congress of Chambers of Commerce at London 1900. M>- Balfour was a partner in Jamts Hen tv and Go., merchants, for 25 years, and subsequently senior partner in the mercantile agency business in Melbourne of James Balfour and Co He leaves five sons, throe of whom are engaged in pastoral pursu’tfi and one in the medical profession. Mr Balfour visited Dunedin abo-t- ]Pj months a g r >. on +he occasion of the Rev. G. H. Balfour’s induction to First (T'oeh. if 1 then addressed the. Presbyterian laymen of Dunedin on the aims and objects of tlie laymen’s missionary movement.