OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 228, 24 September 1918, Page 2

OBITUARY.

OLD COLONIST'S DEATH. MR. STEPTTEN" X HTTGHES. A former well-known resident of PonRonby, Mr. Stephpn E. Hughes, died at his residence. Station Road, Reinuera, yesterday afternoon, in the 70th year of his age. Deceased resided in Ponsonby for 3C> yearn before removing to Remuera. He Tvas Bec.retary of the. Ponsonby Road Board at the time of the inoorporati(in of that area 'with the city ac a separate ward. Mr. Hughes was the eon of the late S. E. Hughes, barrister and solicitor, and was born at Chatham, England. He came to Auckland with his parent* in the ship Clara in 1849. He was a land acrent by occupation, and identified with many or<jani«ations in this city. He was one of the promoters of the Auckland Orphans' Club, of which he was a life member. Living in Shelly Reach Road for ench a long time, he was keen on .iquatice, and one of the founders of the West Find Rowing Club, also president of the Auckland Swimming Club for a number of years. Mr. Hughe* was al«o an active member of the Auckland Horticultural Society in hig earlier years, and a great shower of pelargoniums, in which flower he specialised. He also took an interest in educational matters, being member and for some time secretary of the Ponsonby Schools Committee. Deceased is survived by a widow, four sons, and one daughter. Interment will be private. MRS. F. R. BURT. ] In Elleralie another of the o'd coloniste, Mrs. F. R. Burt, has died, a<red 67 years. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hastie brought her out to New Zealand when ehe was a child of four, and they lived for a lon£ tim e at Waitati. in Otago. Mre. Burt ha« boen in failing health since a son died because of an accident a while ago. She hfls. been married for 48 years, and her hueband still lives, also three eons and fire daughters, most of them married! There are 37 grandchildren an 3 eeveral great-grandchildren living MR. STEPHEN FEARXL'EY. The late Mr. Stephen Fearnley, who died in his eighty-first year, was born in 1839, at Lewisham, Kent. He left England with his parents in the ship Victory in 1850. and linded in Auckland in April, 1851, the family going to reside in Albany. He was apprenticed to the late Mr. Samuel Vaile, of Auckland, when the Maori war broke out, and worked on the stockades at and other various buildings for soldiers. He went to the Thames goldfie'ds during the early gold nnh, and worked in a claim next to the famous Shotover mine. After the pold rush was over, he returned to Albany, and left there in ISSI for Otahuhn, where he resided until his denth. He is survived 'by his sister (Mrs. Oarner, of Wanjranui), his wife, who resides at Otnhuhu. and five sons: James Thor- ! nevcroft (N"rtheoteK E. Albert (Palm- I er=ton North), H. France, on active service*. Alfred fPtannhiO, Ser<rt. Haro'd (Anckland Po! : ce Force), and one daughter (Mrs. Gardiner, of Ota- i huhu).