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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 3

Obituary

Obituary.

The Rev. Horatius Bonar, d.d., best known as a hymn-writer, died at his residence, Edinburgh, on the 31st July, in his 81st year.

An English telegram of 26th September records the death of Eliza Cook, the well-known poet, at the age of 71.

An English telegram of 23rd Sept. records the death of Wilkie Collins, the well-known novelist and dramatist, in his 66th year.

Mr R. K. Burt, senior partner in the printing firm of R. K. Burt & Co., Fetter Lane, London, died on 10th July, aged 62.

Eneas Dawson, until lately senior partner in the firm of Dawson & Sons, stationers, Cannon-st., London, died on 24th July, aged 70.

Mr Charles Hardwick, the historian of Preston, (in his youth apprenticed in the Preston Chronicle office), died on 9th July, at the age of 71.

Mr John Watson, an old pressman, died in Wellington on the 28th August, aged 79. He arrived in the colony in 1842, and was connected successively with the old Spectator, the Independent, and the Evening Post.

American papers record the death by suicide in Kansas of Howard B. Hetrick, a reporter who has done some of the best newspaper work in the county. He had given way to drink, and all efforts to reclaim him were fruitless.

M. Alkan, sen., a bibliographer, died near Paris on the 18th June, aged 84. It is not many months since he published his last work, Les qvatre Doyens de la Typographie Parisienne. He was a frequent contributor to the trade journals, and as far back as 1838 started a periodical, Les Annates de la Typographic, which did not long survive.

The Printers' Register records the death of the oldest member of the craft in the United Kingdom—Mr William Scott, who died on the 29th June, at the age of 95. At the age of eleven he entered into the service of Messrs Eyre & Strahan, afterwards Eyre & Spottis-woode, of which firm he had been a pensioner for thirty years—thus furnishing an instance, probably unique, of a printer eighty-four years in the pay of a single firm.

A cable message dated 23rd September, notes the death of Mr Henry Farnie, one of the most facile and industrious librettists of the century. He possessed a marvellous facility for rhyming, and could set words to anything in the way of music. His opera librettos are innumerable, and among other feats he adapted words to all of Dan Godfrey's waltzes. His name came prominently before the public in a divorce suit a few years ago, and since that time not much has been heard of him.

Mr Henry Samuel Ward, one of the oldest members of the Craft in Melbourne, died on the 14th July. He was born in 1824 at Clapham, and learned the business in his father's office. He afterwards obtained a situation on The Times, and in 1857 came to Australia in the King of Algeria as one of « the Forty » who came out under engagement to the Argus. He worked subsequently on the Herald and the Age, and held a frame on the latter paper to within three months of his death. He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom is on the staff of the Age.