DEATH OF CAPTAIN WOOLLCOMBE, R.N.
Captain Belfield Woollcombe, R.N., the oldest settler in Timaru, and Resident Magistrate, &c, for many years, was found dead in bedyesterday morning. Captain Woollcombe was born of a good Devonshire family in 1816. He entered the Navy as a middy at the age of thirteen, and remembered the demonstrations on the accession of William IV. He took part in the opium war with China, and reoeived a medal He retired after twenty-one yearsservice with a pension, and came to Canterbury in 1852, and to Timaru in 1857 as Government Agent with multifarious duties. He subsequently became Resident Magistrate and retired in 1878 after a second twenty-one years of public service. The Timaru Resident Magistrate adjourned the Court yesterday as a mark of respect, and the Bench and B_r bore testimony to the uprightness of the deceased as a Magis* .rate and his kindly nature and estimable qualities as a citizen.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7922, 23 July 1891, Page 5
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