OBITUARY.
(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter.)
Received April 9, 7.35 p.m.
SYDNEY, April 9
Dr. Brown died in his sleep. He was suffering from influenza. He was in his eighty-second year. His death ends the career of one of the most famous, Intrepid and successful pioneer missionaries in the southern seas. He was a world-wide authority on Polynesian ethnology ana habits, and leaves a unique and Invaluable collection of island curios and Bibliography. Biographies recall that when, after a few years' ministerial work in New Zealand he offered himself as a missionary, objection was raised that he was a meek, mild, ladylike young person, hardly suitable for the mission, field. They emphasise the strangeness of the commentary in view of Dr. Brown's long and perilous life in the forefront of the battle against say-
agery,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16949, 10 April 1917, Page 5
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