OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1313, 16 December 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

■' JOHN STRANGE WINTER. Rj TelcxraDh— Prc=< Association—Cnnyilxbl London, December 11. Strange Winter (Mrs. Arthur Stannard, F.R.S.L.), the well-known novelist, is dead. The late Sirs.. Stannard wrote many stories of army life, and Raskin referred to her as 'the author to whom we owe cue most finished and faithful rendering over yet given of the character of the pritish soldier." She was horn at York m ISSS, her father being tho liev. H V t ,™ r ' , roctor of St Margaret's, York'. In 1881 she married Mr. Arthur Stannard, by whom she had one son and three (laughters. Her first story appeared in 18/4, and since then she has published nearly a hundred books, the best known of which was probably "Bootle's Eabv" Among the others were: "Armv Society," Cavalry Life" "A Born Soldier," "Drau"rvi/n" 1 ' " "-Hi. "Honp-la," , Good-Bye, Iho Soul of the Bishop," «r2L« lo .?I J}' C K on, r Human'" tuip A Blameless Woman," "Into " n , pnknown World," "Uo Went for a Soldier J ' "Tho Truth-Tellers," "The Man I Loved," "A Self-Hade Countess," "Little Joan, and ' tho Vanities of Mrs. AVhitairJ' o» add , ition bc»Uf an authoress, ■Mis. Stannard was the proprietress of numerous toilet preparations: RIGHT REV. DR. BRUCE. (Rec. December 15, 9.50 p.m.) . Sydney, Dccembor 15. iho death is announced of the EHit Rev. Dr. Bruce, ex-Moderator "of tho Presbyterian Church of Australia aged 87. ' The late Dr. Bruce was formerly well known m New Zealand, and was at oue timo Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. . He was bonj .it Cramond, near Ldinburgh, and was educated at Edinburgh Vnivcrsitv am the Diuaity Hall of tho Free Church of Scotland, lit, came out to New Zealand in tho iifties, and becamo minister of St Andrew's, Auckland. In 1872 he whs -id' pouued general agent for the Presbvterli Church in Jvow Zealand, and aflrnvanl's went into journalism, occurring a . tion on the tutorial staff of Ui e Auckland lleiald, and later editing the "N> w "ir ij , mt,S - , 1,1 lm he to New South Males where he subsequently' became Moderator of the Qsneral A semhlv of the Presbyterian Church, lie ve"ht S^ney mmiStt,r ° f Xorlh St