OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13234, 30 September 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY.

MR H. J. WASHBOURN. Another of the old colonist*- died yesterday in the person of Mr Henry John Washbriurn, of the Selwyn. Mr Washbourn was born in 1838 in Gloucestershire, and was brought up to farming He arrived in Canterbury with hi* father and family by the Sir George Seymour in 1850, and worked for some time at the farm of his father at Ric* carton. When nineteen years of ogt> ho went to. Selwyn to manage a largo run for his father. Subsequently Mr Waehhourn and his brother, Mr Edward Washbourn, wont into partnership in cattle farming on a large scale. When tho partnership was dissolved, Mr H. J. Washbourn went in for general farming at tho Bungalow, 11 Selwyn. Ho was very successful as a breeder of cattle and sheep, particularly fat sheep, taking many prizes at • tho variona shows. He was an old member of bot_ the Canterbury and the Agricultural and Pastoral Associations. Lately Mr Washbourn hao been residing in Christchurch. He loaves a widow and eleven children.

Mr R. McKenzie, Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives, received a cablegram on Sunday from Plockton, Ross-shire, Scotland, announcing the* death of his mother, at the ago of 87.