OBITUARY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2659, 15 November 1909, Page 5

OBITUARY.

DR. DALLINGER, WESLEYAN

MINISTER

United Press association— Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 12. The death is announced of Dr. Dallinger, aged 67, a- Wesleyan minister, without pastoral charge, who devoted much time to scientific researches, including ten, years spent on a series of microscopical researches on the life history of minute sceptic organisms.

MR. J. K. LEYS, THE NOVr.xIST.

The death of J. K. Leys’, tnc wellknown novelist, is announced.

[The late John Kirkwood Leys, M.A., was born at Glasgow in 1847, and was the son of the late Rev. P. Leys, ot Strathaven, Lanarkshire. Ho was educated at the High School and Univer-sity-.of Glasgow, and was called to the Bar, Middle*Temple, in 1874. He joined the Northern (afterwards Northeastern) Circuit, and practised as a barrister for- some years in Newcastle-on-Tyne. The late J. IC. Leys was married twice, his first wife being Mary King, daughter of the late William Munsie, of Glasgow', while his second wife was Helen, daughter of the late Mr. James Holligan, Colonial Secretary of British Guiana. The deceased gentleman was widely known as an author, among his publications being “The Lindsays,” a romance of Scottish life; “The Lawyer’s Secret,” “The Black Terror,” “The Houseboat- Mystery," “Held in the Toils,” “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing,” “The Broken Fetter," and? several-other novels.' ]