THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD.
By EVELYN WRENCH.
DEATH has removed during the past ten days two men who in their different spheres played im- portant parts in the development of the Antipodes : Mr. David Lindsay, the Australian explorer, whose death is reported from Port Darwin, in the Northern Territory, and Professor G. S. Sale, who died in London on Christmas Day at the age of ninety-two, much of whose life was passed in New Zealand. David Lindsay, like so many British explorers, was born of Scottish parents. At the age of twenty-seven he explored Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, and the district to the south of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In 1888 he rode across Australia from north to south with only a small black boy as companion. Twenty years ago he brought a " mob of camels " from Port Augusta to Coolgardie, following very nearly the course of the present transcontinental railway. Professor Sale settled in New Zealand in 1860, in the early days of the colony. He was miner, sheep- farmer, administrator and editor by turns. In 1870, when the University of Otago was founded, he was appointed to the chairs of Classics and English Literature. As the Times informs us, during his long service as professor he " was undoubtedly the most potent influence in the academic life of New Zealand."
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