OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9344, 19 February 1896, Page 3

OBITUARY.

The Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times telegraphs:—The death is announced of a vety old ideatity—namely, Mis Williamson, relict of Mr John Williamson, formerly Superintendent of the Province of Auckland —at the age of "eighty. Mrs Williamson and her husband came out to Australia in the thirties, and thence on to Auckland in 1840 in the ship which brought our first Governor, Captain Hobaon, from Sydney. Subsequently Mr Williamson founded the New Zealander, which was carried on succesaf ally for many years by the firm of Williamson and Wilson. Mrs Williamson, with her husband, endured all the hardships of the early pioneer settlers, and it was only the other day, in referring to old times, that she alluded to having, at one time in Auckland's history, lived, in a tent. A private letter received in Auckland states that among those killed in Dr. Jameson's expedition was a young man named William Henry Hayes, second son of tbe well-known circus proprietor, who visited N_w Zealand not very long ago, and went to South Africa with a travelling troupe. He wu a good shot and well acquainted with the country, and things being bad in the show basinesa he joined Jameson's expedition to .the Transvaal, the .•salt of which is too w«U known.