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Taranaki Daily News, 28 November 1916, Page 4

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Mr. Allan l Smith, who has been engaged for many years as a missionary in Paraguay, is spending a holiday in Sew 'Plymouth. Mr. Dcwdney W. Drew, M.L.A., of South Africa, is visiting his father, the Rev. W. Drew, of New Plymouth. Jack London, whose death is reported, was born at San Francisco on January 12, 1576, and was educated at the University of California. He broke off his college career to go to Klondike, and never completed his career. In 1802 lie went to sea before the mast, and next year found him in Japan and the Bullring Sea, where he was engaged in sealhunting. In the following year he tramped throughout tlio United States aucl Canada, studying sociological and economic problems. He travelled a great deal, and was at various times a journalist and lecturer. He was war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese war. In 1007-9 he navigated his 55ft. craft, the Snark, in the South Seas. He was twice married, first in. 1900 to Miss Bessie Madden, of Oakland, and in 1005 to Miss Kiltredge. Hi 9 novels, which are very numerous, are all of the breezy, out-of-door type, and the author has a large reading public. His chief novels are: "The Cruise of the Dazzler," 1902; "The Call of the Willi," 1903; "The Sea Wolf," 1904; "The Iron Heel," 1907; "When God Laughs,", 1910; "The Cruise of the Snark," 1811; "John Barleycorn," 1813; <mi,« Valley of the Moon," 1914