OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 2, 3 January 1924, Page 12

OBITUARY.

MR. C. F. KISSLING. The death occurred at his residence, Burleigh Street, .yesterday, of Mr. Charles Frederick Kvanson Kissling, in his seventy-ninth year. He was the ourth son of the' late Archdeacon Kissling, and had for many years been i resident of Auckland. Mr. Kissling ivas connected with the shipping and insurance business in the early days, ut several years igo he retired from ■live work. After a service' at St. Sepulchre's Church at 10 a.m. to-morrow :is remains will be interred at Purewa emetery. MRS. C. H. POOLE. Mrs. Edith Annie Poole, wife of Mr. .:. H. Poole,-ex M.P. for Auckland West, 'fd at a private hospital yesterday, at the age of 42 years. Mr. and Mrs. Poole returned from America by the Niagara last week, after a holiday trip lasting four years. During that time Mr. Poole was engaged on a lecturing tour of the United States and Canada, and returned to Auckland on account of Mrs. Poole's indifferent health. Mrs. Poole, who was a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Pacey, leaves one son, aged 10. The funeral 'takes place to-morrow at the Waikaraka Cemetery, after a service at the Grafton Road Methodist Church at 2 p.m. REV. GRAINGER HARGREAVES. The Rev. Grainger Hargreaves, whose death was announced in yesterday's "Star," became endeared to a great number of citizens during his visit to the New Zealand Methodist Conference, which was held in Auckland in 1921. He will be remembered because of his close resemblance to our Prime Minister, the Kt. Hon. W. E. Massey. He was perhaps one of the foremost preachers who had visited these shores for a long time. In' his younger days he had spent a considerable time in the East, and his preaching was tinged with a mysticism which gave it great charm, combined with force and power. He had no time for the old-fashioned theologian who did not push forward with the enlightened days in which we live. The last time he preached before sailing for Home was at the Devonport Methodist Church, and many ministers of other denominations were present. His address was a memorable one, in which he expounded at great length the truths of the Gospel as they appealed to him. "I believe we live in a young world," he exclaimed, "and I cannot agree with those who say that this world will soon pass away. I believe it will go on for millions and millions of .years, and that people will inhabit. it then just as they do now. A beautiful world like this was not made to be destroyed in a few thousand years. The outlook for the world is as wide as the heavens itself, and it is only the cramped mind of man who can see oblivion written across the horizon of everything in the near future. Wo were now only at the commencement of things."