Obituary.

The Mount Ida Chronicle reports the death, on the 25th November, at the early age of 19, of Mr J. Allan. He served his apprenticship in the Dunstan Times office, after which he purchased an interest in the unlucky Nenthorn Recorder. The cause of death was typhoid, contracted at Nenthorn.

In August last died, at the good old age of 98, Thomas Goddard, father of the wellknown English pianist Madame Arabella Goddard.