Obituary.

The Rev. Thomas Ashe, of Cheshire, the author of « Songs Now and Then, » and other poems, and « The Sorrows of Hypsipile, » a Greek drama, has died in London, in his 54th year.

An English telegram records the death of Dr Adler, the chief Rabbi of the English Jews for the past forty-five years. He was born in Hanover in 1803, and was noted for his learning and his liberal views. He was the author of several sermons and commentaries. His portrait appeared, with those of other noted London Jews, in a late Graphic.

Mr Jacob Ottmann, the printer of Puck, a well-known and able lithographer, died in New York, from paralysis of the heart, in his forty-first year. He was a native of Meisenheim on the Lahn, Prussia, and emigrated to America in 1863. His ability and industry helped greatly to make the celebrated paper with which he connected a great success. He leaves one daughter, thirteen years of age.

A telegram of 11th January records the death at Munich, at the good old age of 91, of a man of mark in the ecclesiastical and literary history of the century—Dr Joseph Horatius Böllinger. He was the author of important and standard works on church history; but will be always chiefly remembered as the head of the « Alt-Katholik » party; and for his steadfast opposition to the innovations in doctrine and practice decreed by the Vatican. He has fallen a victim to the influenza epidemic, and died « full of years and honors. »

The Wairarapa Daily of the 23rd ult. records the sudden death of an old Wairarapa journalist, Mr J. Martin Rockel. He first took to journalistic work some sixteen years ago as Masterton correspondent of the Wairarapa Standard, and subsequently became editor and proprietor of the Masterton News-Letter. Later on he joined the staff of the Wanganui Herald, and afterwards that of the Wellington Times. For some years past he has lived at Masterton, acting as correspondent to Wellington papers. His journalistic work, says the Daily, was marked by « a clear and intelligent conception, a painstaking and conscientious accuracy in statement, and a graceful and lucid style. »

Mr Frederick Bond, well known in this colony, died at Kew Asylum, Melbourne, on the 13th December. He was the son of a Manchester lawyer, and studied short-hand under Mr Pitman. He was connected for a time with the Manchester press, and came out about fifteen years ago to Melbourne, joining the Echo as reporter. He was afterwards on the South Australian Register, and on « Hansard » in the same colony. Thence to Auckland, from whence he went south to join the Otago Guardian, a paper that started with a good literary staff. When the Guardian was merged into the Daily Times, he joined the latter; was afterwards sub-editor of the Wellington Post, then joined the New Zealand « Hansard, » but gave up the situation on account of failing health, and went to Melbourne, where soon after his arrival his intellect gave way. He was a clever man, one of the finest reporters in the colony, and an accomplished musician and composer.