A Good Record.

Southland Times, Issue 19381, 3 September 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Good Record.

Of Hunoitin's senior magistrate, whose death took jilaco on .Suiulu.V, (In- O.I). Ti mi's says :— Ed^ir Hall Cnrow was horn in London in tlio year ls:H. liis father heing Captain George Carew, well known in the Eastern mercantile trade. . After his retirement from the Hea. Captain Carew settled in St. Helena, und Mr Carovv watt .sent to England and educated in privato schools in the vicinity of London. lie entered mercantile life as a lad, and came to South Australia at u etill early upe in ft brig called the J ano, which belonged to his father. Mr Carew went to tho Mount Alexander goldlield, nnd spent several years following tingoldOelds life in various parts of Victoria. Towards the end of 1862 ho camo to Otago, at tho time that the Dunstan goldfield was in full swing, and ufter u short experience of the local diggings hu joined tlie Government service in. 1804. heing appointed mining engineer and clerk of the court at the Nevis goldfield. Seven years later, Mr Carew was appointed resident magistrate and war- , den ut Blacks, heing afterwards transferred to the Dunstan, und in 187.5 to Lawrence, where lie had charge of tho Tuapeka goldfield. In 1881 Mr Carew was appointed magistrate and coroner at Dunedin, and later on, in addition" to the.se offices and that of goldtields warden, he was appointed chairman of the Licensing Committees of Dunedin. Waikouaiti. Cuvorsham. ami Taieri. Subsequently, on readjustment of the olectorul boundaries, Mr Carow became Chairman of the Chalmers Licensing Committee. Of the qualities of Mr Carew as a magistrate it is not proposed to speak hero, save to say thut one of tho marked characteristics that earned him universal respect und admiration was his absorption in his work and hi.s capacity for work, in respect to which he unfortunately did not sp/tro himself Hiifßdiently, presiding at tho nleeting of tho City Licensing Committee in June lust, when far from well nnd troubled with the beginnings of the illness which necessitated hi.s application for leave of absence, and then his retirement. As showing the multifarious duties that fell to Mr Carew to perform, it .may also lio recalled that he was appointed last year by the Government to take evidence and report as to the Tomakawk drainage outfall, u tusk that jiroved nn onerous one. Mr Carew wus twico married thc second time in 1817-1, to the fourth duughter of Mr Charles Broad, luto warden to Mount Ida goldfield Mr Carew leaves to survive him a widow and one son and ' one daughter. Of Tiis many brothers only two survive him — the lion. Walter Carew, at one time in Fiji, hut now retired, and Captuin Horace CtU'ew, a well-known mariner in Japun and China. His only sitter is the widow of tho late Mr Fredrick J. Moss, who died in Auckland some six weeks ago ; but h« hud a number of nephews and nieces in New Zealund. one of the former being Mr Mors, Mll.lt. for Ohinemuri. Mr Carew had a great objection to parade of any sort, and expressly wished that his obsequies should ho conducted tt.H simply as possible.