When John Shaw Burdon, retired Bishop of Victoria and Warden of St. Paul's College, died in 1907, quite a number of Australian newspapers published obituaries of him. Here below was an example. [Click here for the digital image of the original newspaper at the website of National Library of Australia.]
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) Tuesday 8 January 1907, page 5 of 10.
BISHOP DEAD.
NOTED CHINESE SCHOLAR.
LONDON, Jan. 7.
The death is announced of Bishop Burdon, the distinguished Chinese scholar, formerly Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong).
[The Right Rev. John Shaw Burdon, D.D., was admitted to the priesthood in 1852, and for over 20 years (1853 to 1874) was a missionary in China. He was successively in Shanghai, Ningpo, Shaouhying, and Peking. After a year's furlough for the sake of his health, he was in 1874 consecrated Bishop of Victoria, in Hong Kong. During his career as a missionary, he became a noted Chinese scholar; and in 1871 he completed the translation of the New Testament (from the original Greek) into Mandarin Chinese. He was also one of the translators of the book of Common Prayer into Mandarin Chinese. He was Bishop of Victoria till 1895, when he retired.]
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Obviously, the original cable from London was only one sentence long. (We can tell that it was a cable message by the date of its publication - only a day after its release.) The obituary was the paragraph in bracket.
Because the digital image is quite blurred, the original electronic text, automatically generated by the website was an unintelligible mess. I have typed the above text myself and have corrected the electronic text at the library's website too.



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