OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 37, 11 February 1903, Page 3

OBITUARY.

PEE PBKSg ASSOCIATION. Londos, Pibruarr 9. The deaths are announced of Edna Lyall, the Novelist", and James Glaisber, F.R.S. [Few authoresses have obtained greater or mora desoived notoriety than Miss Ada Ellei Bayly, who 'wrote under the nom deplume of Edna Lyall. She was the d .ugh'er of a barrister, the i 'ate Robert Biyly, and was born and educated at Brigh'on, Sussex. At an e»rly age she evinced considerable' tilent for writing, and her fi-st work, "Wnn by Waiting," publishud in 1879, it once placed b o r in the front rank nf her profession. The oi iginality and bio :d .uinileltie-s of litsnry produc "ons "e.'e such as to strike home to many hou-aods of raiders all that is be?t in humanity. Few people could rise from a perusal of "Donovan" and "We Two" without being larger hearted and more chiritably disposed to their fellow beings. It is writers of tfaia class that do incalculable good, and her loss in <m* fch-.t leave* a pap which is hard to fill.] [The late Jarring Glaisher's nrnw is so connected with aeri>l navigation that it is familiar all over t.he globe, and yet he was a scieetis l ; and cot properly speaking an seronau"-. One has almost to go b.ck a century to thi time >f his birth, which took plac'i in April, 1809, at London, His scientific career commenced in 1829, and since than he has held several important positions, including that of assistant at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. His services in compiling periodical meteorological reports date from 1841, a time when the observations were of a very elemen-

tary character. Ou meteorological mattera he has published several standard works, being the author of over a hundred works relative to that and kindred subj'c's. Between 1863 and 1866 he made 29 balloon ascents for scientific purposes, on one occasion attaining the height of nearly seven miles, when he becams insensible, and was only saved by Mr Cox we l ), the aeronaut, opening the valve by pulling it with his teeth .1

Received 10, 10.57 p.m. London, February 10. The Hon. Sir Charles Givan Duffy, K.0.M.G., died at Nice on the 9th inst. [SirChaUes Huffy was born, in 1816, an>l wa« called to the, Irish Bar in 1846. He was editor of the Nation, being one of the prisoners with O'Conee!l in 1844. He subs'quently settled in Australia, and became a member of the firs'; Parliament of Victoria, being Minister of Public W o rka in 1857, Prime Minister in 1871, and six ye rlater Spe*k«r. Ho was Ch'irman of tha Royal Federation 0' mrpission and lof the International Conference of Cabinet Minister?.]