OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7013, 31 January 1901, Page 3

OBITUARY.

*~- REV H. R.V'haWEIS. "^. .Paits^lVess Associaitioii— ißjr OBkctric - i/ .^ Telegrahp-iCppyrigfit'. .„,. ..£ *tt}£' {Received' Jan*. 31, 8-50 -a.nl.)" '"'*'t>. : *^>" • : I^NDON^ Jam 30. ; \ Tife^d)ea*li%aauiotinfbear<)f><tilie RevH. R. Haweis, aged sixty-two. : (The Rev Hugh Reginald Haweis, M- A., was born at Egiham, Surrey, on April 3, 1838. His father was the Rev J. 0. W. Haweis, M.A., rector <tf Slaughan, Sussex, and Canon andi Prebendary of Chichester Cathedral. Deceased was M. A. •of '. Cambridge, -which honour he achieved in L; : >l ! S6^..' iAfter holding, several clerical • posi- *; :^oiis In' succession he became in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebohei; He was .then the youngest incumbent fft f Lon- ; : doE^r-with a poor and: small congregation . 'a^;'44<iiiapidated church building.- But, thank's to great gifts as a preachejrygbod business: abilities and untiring energy, his church "became one of the most crowded in London. • When ' Garibaldi's revolution began Mr - Haweis took great interests in it and followed" its fortunes. He was present at the siege of Capua, and had: several narrow escapes. It was fromf&ig pen the " Argosy " and . " Cassell's Magazine " obtained their articles on Garibaldi and his career that caused both those;'magazines to, co ' to speak, . junto into 'popular favour. "Mr Baweis wa's-a hard-working journalist as well as an indefatigable cleric, and most of the leading London newspapers and magazines have opened their columns and pages to him. He always took great interest in. the movement to provide open-air spaces for the . people in large cities, the planting out of disused London churchyards being one of his especial, hobbies: l He "'had*,' from his' youth a ■ wonderful aptituße for violin-playing, and studied under the . great violinist Oury, himself a pupil of the celebrated Paganini. He has written several works which have .music. for >their >;theme/ less, however, on what [is than on what music does and can do. and, his celebrated' "Music and Morals" is a work^pf this tfature. But he was a^yrolmV writer' on other subject®, and his books are many. He has been well known as a. lecturer in ,many parts of the world, and in 1895 he passed through New Zealand on a lecturing tour, piloted by Mr R. 3. Smythe. During the tour, which included Australasia, : he preached in nine colonial cathedrals to crowded congregations. His wife^— Mary Ellen Joy, a welUbnown authoress, died in 1898.)" . (Received Jan. 31, 9.1 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 30. Baron Wilhelm Rothschild, of Frankfort, is dead." • .