OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 6

OBITUARY.

LIEUT.-COLONEL JAMES PIKE, TJJL An old and highly, esteemed reSßeit of Auckland, Lieutenant-Colenel-Piiit, died yesterday ,atl hie 'reri*enee,/S»rei» ' Lodge, Parnell, at the age of 81 yta.it. '■'■■' Before coming to New Zealand inwr years ago; Colonel Pirie waa β-fiuiiw* ■ rifle shot, and held- maay valuable trophies won in England and the Chin- : nel Islands. He was formerly Major and Adjutant of the Ist Regiment of the Royal Guernsey 'Jα IWB . . Colonef Pirie feame""to•'" " *' and was for many years nected with the volunteer Joreee. Hβ reached the rank of lieotenut-Coloctl and vfas at one time instructor in musketry, inspector of ammunition andv* '".'. member of the- Offieeie' Xxasuntioa ' Board. He only retired from; active, military work a few yean ago. lie deceased was also a director of a nant -'' ber of mining companies At rarion* Colonel Pirie was a prominent mil ber of the Masonic fraternity, an jhh •:•.■*.:.■■■ thusiastic bowler, and a keen He is survived by, hie T»Se,jrhV£t|i|gH eldest daughter of the late Mr. Jrihii ■'■. Carey, Lord of the Manor of Saiat*••'. Helene, Guernsey.: The eldest eta, Mr. J. Carey Pirie, is, now in China,. $• | other, son,. Mr. Cecil W. Pine, i» ;i*>, j> the service of the Union Sii. Co. t lie eldest daughter, Mrs..Cook, resides ia - Sydney, and the second' Tβ Mrs. E. PhillipsTurnerof"Wellingtee. Theiatlrment takes place at St. Xaik'a CifU- « tery to-morrow. ■ .••'•■■ \\ ' 41 LIEUT.-COLONEL KICB&KDSON. X ~ (By Telegraph.—Free* AMdaUoa.) ].: GREYMOOTH, - Lieutcnant-OolcneS Rich*nfeon, eon et . tite.laite Hon. E. Riofawnteoa, died last night. He was taken in and died ■froiri cerebral hemctri H« bad mot been in the beat of kealtkeinee -; ■the- Kow-hai camp last year. Tht was to have broken up te-fay, the Cea- \, tarbury section.' having left JerteKhy morning. The body to tone • this morning, and will he taken overland to ChTistchirroh to of ifoe death caused * p*ieM sJroek in ' . •camp, ; fche lieuternnt-oolooel fcavmg been ■ an .exceedingly popular officer with tb* .