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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1900, 7 November 1913, Page 9

Another of (ho fast-disappearing'" band of old ■ identities of "NVellnifetp.il / lnis 'passed, away in the person of Mr. " I j amos Taylor, J.]'., of Tawu Flat Mi. ■- Taylor arrived in Wellington ; in tho . jliiriJiii ilidgiviiy, as )ar hack as tho,. year 15'39., in tiio.se days when the hills. '' of Port Nicholson iveie wooded dotal to--< tlio water's -edge. For more than .sixty.-. /, years he Vt'ttS actively ciiiployei}' 111 ninny positions in .public life,, vjfiqrch Wflj-p A . in the .Methodist circuit 'also received a / largo slirtlo of his attention, and ho •served with distinction for a lonj: time in tho volunteer forces, The decea«d gentleman is survived by his wife,, whom ho married, to the old Manners . Street Churoh in. 1844, and -of his .family of fourteen, eleven are now* living, comprising sis Ro.ns a lid five daughters. There are 75-grand-children, 51 grcatr grand-children, and one great-great-grandchild. Many p'epplo will -remember tho golden ana diamond celebrations of tho marriago of Sir, and Mrs. " : 'Taylor. ' . Mr. 0, Orowfatib Sydney mimagcr of . tho Canadian-Australian dtfparfmeiit of tho Union Steam Ship Company, arrived back from n trip to San Fran- ; cisco by tho Wiiloekra yesterday, Mr; „t Crawford was formerly chief clerk in ■tho Wellington, offico pf the Union Com-' puny.