OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 29 January 1887, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Everyone will deeply eympalbiso with Professor F. I). Brown, Professor of , Chemistry ia the Auckland University College, whose wife, we griove to observe, expired on 16'h met. atherhoueoatDevonport. | The deceased lady ia from London, and had . recently been confined. It would appear i Mrs Brown was beginning to got about again ! whensliecaußut a plight but dangerous cold, which rapidly devoloiied into tnflamation of the lung?. Various vessels in port nnd mercantile houses carried their flaca half-mast high on 2Ut inst. iv token of respect for tho memory of Mrß Brighatn, who died at her reel- j deuce, Lincoln-street, fousonby, on the 21st inst, need 71 yeare. Mrs Brigham was «o widow of Mr John Brigham, and one of , those who arrived in Auckland in too car y days (1S41) of the colony, and reared a family now grown up to manhood. The eldest eon in | Mr J. Brighara, at Mr J. C. Firth's ; the second is Mr Jas. M. Brigham, eeorotory to tho Auckland Harbour Board ; the third, j Mr D Brioham, of To Aroha; nnj tho : youngest, Mr AY. Brigl.am, who occupies a , position in tho establishment of T. and S. ; Slorrin ond Co. There are also two ■ dauEhtsrs unmarried. Tho deceased lady ! was well-known and b: ( ;h!y rejected by a largo circle of relations and friends, who deeply mown iheir loss. I Mr Uharlea Sliclibury, nn old Auckland colonist who wss formerly in business in , Queen-street, died on Sunday, 10th inst., , ai tho ace oi S6 years. For many years the , deceased gontiemao had lived in retirement, | MrStichbury, it may interest our readers , to know, arrived for the first time- in the , colony on let January, 1840, in the good ship Cuba, Captain Wincoinb, and under Captain Smith helped to survey tha town- . chip of Wellington. He married at J ellington, the Hey. Mr Macfarlane officiating, the happy coupls being tho first_ united iv the district Mr Stichbury arrived in A«ek!a c d oarly in 1841, and then lived on | the Island of Waiheko for twelve monb. , Ha was then employed in business till lbol, j wbt.i ho had joined ia partnership with ; the late Mr 1). Natbin and Mr H. », ; JervU, In 1862 he rovieitod En^lanri, re- | turning to the colony iv 1861, when bo com- , menceU business as an auctioneer aua im- j porter, ultimately retiring from business in j 1869, and living privately at his residence, Clovornook, Newmarket, until his decease. He leuved a widow, five sons, and a daughter to mourn their loss; also twenty-seven grandchildren.