OBITUARY,

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10786, 13 October 1900, Page 9

OBITUARY,

MR WILLIAM SMART.

The friends of Mr W. Smart, mining engineer, will learn with regret of his death, which took place yesterday. Deceased arrived in the Isabella Hercus on March Ist, 1851, with his brother, the late Mx John Franklin Smart. Ho joined the late Mr C. B. Turner in his run, which extended from the H?athcote to the Waimakariri. Subsequently he entered into partnership with Mr Lse, familiarly known amongst old colonists as "Jockey Lee." In 1861 he went to the Otago goldfields, returning to Christchurch in 1862, when the Provincial Government offered a reward for the discovery of gold in Canterbury. In conjunction with the late Mr W. H. Simons and ■Mγ J. Day, now of Kaiapoi, he prospected from Waimate to Hurunui. Mr Simms subsequently left the party, and Messrs Smart and l)ay, under the guidance of the Kaiapoi Maoris, descended from the Hurunui saddle down the Teremakau, discovering the first gold about two miles above the junction of the Greenstone Creek with the Teremakau. Mr Smart afterwards made the first ■water-race on the West Coast on the Greenstone, which he worked for several years. Returning to Canterbury in 1874, "he joined the late Mr "William Wilson in opening the White Rock quarries nnd Whitecliffs coal mines at Malvem, with the latter of which he has been more or less intimately associated up to the time of his death. He was connected lately with the Hartley Colliery Company as mining engineer. He married in 1874 the widow of the late Mr Joseph Deighton. He was a man who had a great deal of faith in the mineral resources of Canterbury, and irever ceased to believe that at some time very large deposits of coal and other minerals would be found in the Malvern Hills. He has been ailing for some time, and his death was not unexpected The interment will take .place at the Linwood cemetery on Sunday, at 2.30 p.m.

There died yesterday at hia residence in Sydenham, a well known character in Chrbtdburch, Mr John Morris Morgan, the Welsh harpist, \rho had be«n latterly in very indifferent health. Mr Morgan 'was trained to the musical profession, and was engaged as harpist to the Hon. Crawshaw owner of the enormous iron foundaries at Dowlais, Glammorganshire, in South Wales. Hβ was a competitor in the harp contest at the Exhibition of 1851."at which he won the gold medaL Coming to the colonies at the time of the gold fever, be reached Melbourne in the ship Francis Henty in 1852, and has since then followed his profession. Owing to a paralytic seizure a few months ago he had* been unable to set about since<