OBITUARY.

ROBERT BUTLER.' Robert Butler, an old-time Treiitham resident, died yesterday week in the Carterton ''Buchanan Home" aged 79. His health had been failing for some time but he was only admitted to the institution a few days before his. death He arrived in Niw Zealand about 1862 in the ship Terrepi and staged at Porirua with the Champion's. He was employed an Canrard's c ntract building the first Wellington wharf.'; He afterwards took up a 25-acre lot at Trentham—somewhere near where Routley now lives-the whole valley being bush in which several sawmills were cutting, , and small clearings here and there. Some six years later he and a number 01 Hutt-vailey settlers crossed the Rimutaka, and in 1873 he ana the late James Stevens ent gaged in farming on land they Lad pdichased. at Belvedere. I is vvilo died in 189 G. Only two children survive—'William Butlt.r (in the King Country) and Mrs. H; Miller .(Carterton). At the ; mitral, vvli.ch cook phce 1 esterday at Claredile cemetery last Sunday, the Oddfellows • headed the cortege. Deceased was one. of the oldest Oddfellows in the district, bad been captain q| the Carterton Fire Brigade,