RECENT DEATHS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 968, 8 November 1910, Page 6

RECENT DEATHS.

. The following obituary notices appear i* the latest English papers:—'..," ' .. Mr.' Wm. Clark Co vie (60), chairman of the' court of directors of the British NorCT Borneo Company, died while on holiday in Germany, and was buried at Blacknoath. Mr. Cowie's life was most adventurous, and the' Colony of British North Borneo was prevented from passing under the Spanish flag and ultimately becoming n possession of the United Statc3 through his extraordinary influence, in that quarter of the globe. As a young man he shipped as engineer of a fourteenton steamnr bound for Singapore—a vessel .so. small :for. a 90Q0-mile voyage thai no professional seaman could be got lu "sign, on." She just escaped wreckage in Irish seas, was sunk and refloated" in the Suez Canal, but reached her destination after a protraoted voyage, during which the crew suffered semi-starvatiou, Captain Cowie. began trading .with Brnnei and Sulu. natives, and became intimate with their Sultans, upon whom, in 1875. Spain 'leclnreil war. . The Sultan of Sulu transferred his sovereign rights over North Borneo ..to-Mr. Cowie. ..to baulk his Spanish enemies, and the North British Borneo Company subsequently came into existence. Mr! Cowie was nota self-seeking man, and. he was proud to say that he found.Borneo a pirate-infest-ed wilderness,, and left it safe for allcomers and with a happy and prosperous future. , .

. Mrs. Ira D. Sankey, widow of the famous-evangelist znd hymn-tune composer, died on September 25 in New York. Sho accompanied Mr. Sankey on/his 1873 tour through England with Mr. D. L. Moody, and in her husband's later years, when his eyesight foiled, she was constant in her devoted attendanlce upon him. "She has been a blessing ana a. helpmate to me throughout my life and in all my work,'\wrote the ased evangelist in bis autobiography. They met in Pennsylvania, when Mr. Sankey was leader of the choir of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Miss Fanny V. Edwards was one of the singers.

Mr. William Leatham Bright '(59), the second son of John Bright.

Mr. George Douglas Williams, for many years chief editor of Reuter's Agency. He was in Paris during the Commune, and had several narrow escapes from death. : '

Louisa, Lady De Rothschild, who was in her ninetieth year. She was a lifelong and enthusiastic Liberal, a staunch Free Trader, and an ardent supporter of temperance movements. Her two daughters are Lady Battersea and Mrs. Eliot Torke. . ,

Lady Forestier-Walker, wife of Sir George F. Forestier-Walker, of Castleton. She was prominent in charitable and benevolent movements, beinu especially interested in the Newport Home for Friendless Girls.

Madame Pasteur (85), widow of the great French bacteriologist.

Mrs. 'Georgina Margaret Hayman (80), of Southsea, who in her youth was a close friend of Dickens, and is said to have given him the character of "Little Dorrit."

General Charles R. Brayton (70), . of" Rhode Island. For twenty years, and in ', spite of blindness during the last seven , years, lie was absolute dictator of the Republican Party in New York State.