OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 27, 1 February 1921, Page 6

OBITUARY.

MR. FREDERICK LAJIBOURNE. Another of the curly residents of Auckland, Mr. Frederick I.ira!>ournc, died yesterday at liis residence, Orafton Road, in bis eighty-sixth year, l-'or very many years Mr. Lambourne carried on a hardware business in KarangaWpo Road, only retiring when ago began to atfect native of England, and a strictly upright man. His third son, Mr. Walter Lamtourne,, who was born in Newton in ISU3, is proprietor of the well-known hardware establishment in Ponsonby Koad. MR \V\ M. MICWJSILAM. The death occurred in the Thames Hospital on Sunday, of Mr. W. M. Newsham, of Te Aroha, a pioneer of the jjoldifiplds. In 18S:S. with Mr. C. W. Hur?thouse, (Jovcrnment Surveyor, he was captured by the Maoris, but was released by Te Kooti. ym. John evans. The death is announced in Dunedin of Mr. John Rvane, who served on the North-Boat Valley Borough Council from IHO2 till 1807, and subsequently served two terms as Mayor before the borough's amalgamation with Dunedin. Deceased j was for years a member of the jTradis and labour Council, and took an I active interest in the Ancient Order of Foresters. MR. THOMAS DLTTY. CBy Telegraph— O-m Correspondent.) TUA3Lr>\ this day. A pioneer of the New Zealand goldfields, Mr. Thomas Duftv, passed away at Parawai on Sunday, ajred 94 years. Mr. Dufty left England some GO years asro, and arrived in Canterbury, from I thence proceeding to the West Coaet, I where he followed the pursuits of a miner. Later he left for New South Wales, where he also followed mining. ' He" came to the Thames at the time of ! tho boom, in ISCB. Leaving mining, Mr. ! Dufty carried on a milk run for a niimIber of years, and later lived a retired "life. Until hie death he had good health. Mr. Dufty had a family of five sons and three daughters. They are: .Messrs. 8. Dtiftv and Thomas "Dufty I both of Auckland), Joseph Duftv (Hik-uai), ■ William Dufty ans John Dufty (both of Parawai), Mesdames John Corbett and 11. Syms (of Parawai} and the late Mrs. C. j. Winder.