OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 93, 23 April 1891, Page 6

OBITUARY.

Henry H. Goughton, German Consul ab Dunedin, is dead.

Arthur Lawrenson Bristow, manager of the National Bank, Nelson, died on April 19th after a long illness.

Our Whangarei correspondent writes : — A Mr Arthur Richardson died at the residence of his father, J, P. Richardson, of typhoid fever. He was a fine, robust young man, employed at Hikurangi, where it is said he contracted the fever. He was buried on Saturday last.

The many friends of Mrs Sinclair, of Hazelbank, Symonds-street, learned with regret of her death at the comparatively early age of fifty-three. The deceased was tho daughter of Mr Geon>e Graham, one of Auckland's oldest and most enterprising Bottlers. She was esteemed by all who knew her for her wurm-he.irted and sympathetic qualities. Her death resulted from cnncer.

We have to record the death of Mrs E. B. Tumor, wife of the late Mr Turner, an old colonist of 51 years. Sho died afc the reHidonce of her daughter, Mrs Pittar, England-street, having been taken suddenly ill there on Sunday evening, April 12th. She went to church, but was subsequently compelled to take to her bed and died in great pain.

Mr Edward E. Bilbrougb, the Auckland inanugGf of Cook and Sona' Tourist Agency, died at his residence, Ihe Pinee, Mount Eden, on March 27. He had been afflicted with consumption for many years, and about twelve months ago he visited England for the benefit of his health, returning apparently much stronger. A few weeks ago he was compelled to take to hie bed, and though favoured with skilful medical attention, he gradually succumbed to the effects of the fatal malady. Air Eilbrouo-h waa highly respected by numerous friends, and by all with whom ho Cftmo in contact in his business capacity. He took a prominent partin connection with the Savage Club. He had literary taste, ar.d was somewhat gifted as a poet. He also edited " Brett's Handy Guide to New Zealand," a work of great interest both historically and as a work of reference to tourists.

The death of Mr John Sclioles, of Newmarket, a very old colonist, occurred on April 11. Mr Scholes arrived in Auckland 49 years ago from Homo, in the ship Westminster, and experienced nil the vicissitudes of life which fell to the lot of the pioneer colonists. Ho settled for a time in various parts of the colonies, and was at one time a prospector and miner at the Ballarat gold diggings in Victoria. He was engaged for some considerable tiuio in the trade between hore and Australia, and was also the first nartner in Auckland with the lato Mr Thos.Hancock, of the Captain Cook Browery, Newmarket. He was the proprietor of the old Royal George Hotel, Newmarket, in its earliest day 3, and was very well-known through his connection with quite a number of enterprises in the old days.

Mr P. E. Francis, who had for the past 9 years been a master at the Auckland College and Grammar School, died on April 6th. Hβ hah been confined to his bed for eomo seven weeks with an affection of the heart. Deceased was a native of Oxford, England, where he received his early education. He came to the colonies as a boy and took his degree at Melbourne University. For a time he was a master at the Geelong College. Then he came to New Zealand, partly .for the sake of his health. He was for a time engaged in teaching at tho Wellington College and at Wanganui High School. Thence he came to Auckland, and for a time conducted the Ponsonby branch of the Auckland College and Grammar School. When the branch was closed his services were retained at the main school. Mr Francis was an able teacher, who possessed tho happy knack of popularising himself with his pupils ab the samo time that he educated and instructed them. He was the leader of the boys in all athletic sports, and did much to foster among the pupils of the school true esprit de corps. He will be missed by the boys as a true friend. Mr Francis was an enthusiastic photograDher, and was for a time secretary of one* of the photographic clubs. He was but 44 years of age. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss.

The Hon. W. Reeves died at Christchurch on April 4th. His death was unexpected. He underwent an operation in lithotomy on the previous Monday, and seemed progressing well till Friday night, when he suffered a relapse. Mr Reeves joined Mr Crosby Ward in Lyttelfcon thirty years ago, and succeeded Mr Ward as member of Parliament for Avon in 1867. He represented the Selwyn district from 1871 to 1876, and was Resident Minister for the Middle Islaud under the Fox-Vogel Government of 1871. He was called to the Upper House in 1884. He was one of the first directors of the New Zealaud Shipping Company, and was chairman in 1885. He was a direotor of the Union Insurance Company at the time of his death, and also a director of the Mutual Life Association of Australia for the South Island. He was a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, and chairman of the New Zealand Press Association. He took a keen interest in sport, and was steward of the Canterbury Jockey Clufo % His funeral took place o n the 6th.

The death of Captain Mackenzie Wilson, Hospital librarian at Auckland, is reported. On Good Friday laet, at the ripe age of 86, this old man passed away to join the great throng of those who have gone before. It appears that up to the Wednesday nighb he was in his usual health, bub on Thursday Mr SchoQeld, the Hospital clerk, tound him lying upon the floor of his room in a fit.

News came to Whangarei on April 18th that Mr Donald McLeod, of Waipu, was dead. His death, writes our correspondent, must have been sudden, for only a few days previously he was about in his ordinary health. Mr McLeod was really the first pioneer of the North American settlers or Nova Scotians to . these colonies, having emigrated from Halifax to South Australia at an early date probably before or about 1850, and upon his representation the first ship, the Margaret, left Home for South Australia, in the first instance ; they afterwards sailed for Port Phillip then, now Victoria, and came on to New Zealand, settling ultimately at Waipu. Mr McLeod was attached for many years to the leading journals of Australia and New Zealand, being a ripe scholar, and splendid writer. He was the eon of the late Rev. Norman McLeod, of Waipu.

Mr James Carlaw, the well-known turncock at the Ponsonby reservoir, died on the morning of April 13th, after a long and painful illness, the cause of death being cancer in the stomach. Mr Carlaw was in his 67th year, and for the last quarter of a century was almost continuously a

resident of Auckland. He was an engineer by trade, and for somo time had charge of the Harbour Board dredge. Latterly he was employed by the City Council as turncock at the Ponsonby reservoir, and he filled this position ably until his death. Mr Carlaw was a native of England, and his residence in Auckland was broken on two occasions to enable him to renew acauaintance with the friends and scenes of *hi 3 youth. He had only returned from the latter visib home a short time before his death, and he succumbed to his serious affliction notwithstanding the moat assiduous care on the part of his relatives and four medical gentlemen. Mr Carlaw had many sincere friends, and his death will be deeply regretted by all who knew him. He was a prominent Mason, and held the jubilee order of merit bearing the autograph of the Princo of Wales. Hβ was Pastmaster of Lodge Eden, a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, also member of the Mark Lodge, and had been sword-bearer in the Grand Lodge of England.