CLYDE FITCH, DRAMATIST LONDON, September 6.
j The death of Mr Clyde Fitch, the I dramatist, is announced. The catuse of j death was appendicitis. 1 Mr Fetch was born at Elmira, New | York, on M.iy 2, 1865. He commenced i wuting plays in 1890, his productions in that year being "Beau Brummel." I Bettys Finish." and "Frederic Lemaetre." He subsequently wrote the fol- . lowing plays:— "A Modern * Match " (1891), subsequently plaj-ed as " Marriage " ;
"Pamela's Prodigy" (1891), "The Masked' Ball" (1892), from the French; "The Har- 1 vest " (1893), '• A Shattered Idol " 1893), I from the French : " The American Duchess" ! (1893) from the French ; " The Social ! Swim" (1893), '"Mrs Grundy, Jun." (1894), from the French; "His Grace de Gammont" (1894), "April Weather" (1894), "Mistress Betty" (1895), subsequently revised and produced in 1905 as " The Toast of the Town"; "Gossip" (1895). with Leo Ditrrichstein ; "Bohemia" (1896), from the French; "The Liair " (1896). from the French; "A Superfluous Husband " (1897) with Leo Ditrichstein, T ' Nathan Hale'' 1 (1898), "The Moth and the Flame" (1898), "The Head of the Family" (1898), f ronv the German, with Leo Dvtrichstein ; . " The Cowboy and the Lady " (1899) " Barbara Frietchie"' (1899), " Sapho " (1900), from the French; "The Climbers" (1900), '" Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marines " (1901). " Lover's Lane " (1901), " The Last of the Dandies" (1901), "The Way of the World" (1901) "The Girl and the Judge " (1901), "The Marriage Game" (1901), from the French; 'The Stubbornness of Geralidine" (1902), "The fiirl With the Green Eyes" (1902), "The Frisky Mrs Johnson " (1903). from ths French; "The Bird in the Cage" (1903). " Algy " (1903), "Her Own IWay" (1903) "Glad Of It " (1903), "Major Andre"' (1903). " Th« Coronet of a Ducheas" (1904). " Grann> " (1904), " Cousin Billy" (1904), "The Woman in tho Case" 1(1904), "Her Great Match" (1905), " Wolf- ! ville " (1905). " Tho .Girl Who ha* Everything " (1906) "Toddles" (1906). from the French; "The House of Mirth". (1906), I with Mrs Wharton ; " The Truth " (1906), | " Tho Straight Road" (1906). " Her Sister" I (1907), in collaboration with Cosmo Gordon- ' Lennox; "Girls" (1908). "Happy Mar- | riaire " (1908), and " The Blue Mouee " ! (1908). I I MR W. J. TONKIN. We regret to have to record the death of Mr W. J. Tonkin, frozen meat and rabbit exporter, who passed aviay suddenly, from heart failure, on Saturday night. Mr Tonkin, who was a nati-.e of Tru.ro. Cornwall, came to tho colonies as ; a young man 34 years ago, when he ; started in the grain and produce business in South Australia. In 1892 he turned j his attention to Now Zealand, and, | settling in Timaru, entered the flour mill- 1 ing business. While he was there Mr Tonkin, who was a man of great enter- | prise, conceived the idea of utilising the i humble rabbit as an article of food for export in a frozen f+ate Ihis was in 1897, and since then ho operated in this line very extensively in Otago and Southland. In one season alone he shipped as many as 60,000 cases, equal to one million and a-half frozen rabbits. To Mr Tonkin's efforts must be given the credit in a large degree for the prominence to which this industry has attained. In recent years Mr Tonkin turned his attention afco to i '. other interests. - He took an active part j :
in (securing the establishmtent of cool stores in Hobart, Tasmania, and was the first to ship TaiSnanian frozen lambs to England. Failing health caused him to 1 relinquish this business. He identified himself with the flax milling industry, and owned a number of mills in different parts of tho country, and with mining interests he was closely connected for some years. Mr Tonkin purchased two large blocks of freehold on the Moa Flat Estate at EttrLck some four years ago. and _ since then devoted a great deal of his time to mixed farming. A larsre area of that property was reserved by him for an orchard. ar.d already 12,000 trees have been planted there. A strong advocate of the Lawrence-Roxburgh railway, \lr Tonkin's name will still bs fresh "in itiß memory of the public as one of the spokesmen on behalf of the deputation which waited on the Hon. R. M'Kenze on this I subject a week or two back. Mr Tonkin had been in indifferent health for some time, and about 18 months a.go he made a trip to Great Britain in the hope of j obtaining benefit from the voyage. He | leaves a widow (who is well kno.vn in J Tirnaru) and a family of three young children.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 25
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757CLYDE FITCH, DRAMATIST LONDON, September 6. Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 25
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