DEATH OF AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER.

Bush Advocate, Volume IX, Issue 677, 17 September 1892, Page 3

DEATH OF AN OLD NEW ZEALANDER.

. + Old settlers under the New Zealand Company, and many others, will regret to loam that private letters received by the last mail record the death in Loudon, on 2nd August, of Mr John Lowthwaite, one ol tho original settlers in Tavanaki. During the war, Mr Lewthwaito removed, with his family to Nelson, where he continued to reside for many years. Mr Lewthwaito was a man of groat mechanical skill aud inventive ability. Before emigrating to New Zealand ho invented nnd patented a machine for printing railway tickets. He thought no more about it until, visiting the Melbourne Exhibition, ho found his owu invention at work there. He then discovered that Messrs Waterlow nnd Son, of London, had for years been using his patent, and going to England he successfully established his claim and recovered from tho firm a vory large sum of money as a composition for royalties. It is Mr Lewthwaite's invention which is still in uso for l'ailway ticket printing all the world over, it is (i uiaiTol of ingenuity aud simplicity. Some years ago Mr Lewthwaito invented a novel method of harbour construction by means of fluating piers, and this has been taken up by several companies, who aro executing works according to its design in England, South America, aud other places. A few years ago wo fully described Mr Lewthwaite's harbour systom. Personally Mr Lowthwaito was most popular, being a man of genial disposition, strict integrity, and large-hearteduess. In Taranaki, Nelson, and ho was well known, and highly esteemed as a colonist of the good old sort. He was about 85 years of age at the time of his death. — Evening Post.