OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13332, 26 January 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

THE PRIMATE OF CANADA

TJoiUd Preas Association—By Electrio Tel -graph—Co_>__-i__ t (Received January 25th, 11.50 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 25. The death is announced of tlie Most Rev. Arthur Sweatmau, Anglican. Bishop of Toronto, and Primate of Canada.

Bishop Sweat-man was born in 1834, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. _ Ho went out to Canada in the sixties as headtaaster of Hellmuth College, Ontario, and) after having been made a canon and an archdeacon, became Bishop of Toronto in 1879. He became Primate in I_OG.

MRS ESTHER "WORNALL. Of the pilgrims to arrive by the first four ship*. Mrs Wornall, who died at Leibhiiek- on Saturday, c__ie in, the third' vessel, which dropped anchor in Lyttelton harbour on December lTlh, ISSO. With her husband, the la_e Mr Samuel Wornall, she came from Wicklow, Ireland, and when the ■up-country roads were being formed nine years later, they had reached Leithfiefd to settle upon the land. "Mrs Wornall has been credited with being the first European woman to take up her residence north of Saltwater Creek. From a family of nine sons and daughters, there are about one hundred: descendants. At the advanced age of eightyeight, Mrs Wornall died ot the residence of one of her sons-in-law. Mr J. _S. Ashby. The funeral, which, was numerously attendied, took placo yesterday in the cemetery grounds at Balcaiirn.

MR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

Canterbury lost recently one of its oldest colonists in the person of Mt James Mackintosh, of Kirwee. Mr Mackintosh arrived in New Zealand in 1864, and obtained employment on the Tjvndon Station, North Canterbury, **_er_ he remained for five years. During that period he drove one of tho -first mobs of sheep to tho West C*o___t. iSu-_eqiiently he was engaged in carting nnd in farm work on a neighbouring station, and in 1874 he commenced to farm on his own account in the Malvern district. Later on he had charge of "Pine Grove," the wellknown estate, at tliat time owned by Mr George Rutherford, and he held the position till 1890, when lie resigned to take up a farm of his own. Mr Mackintosh was a <'._rector of the Kinveo Sa'eyard. Company, and was formerly a member of various local bodies. He took an interest in religious work, and was a member of tlie Darfield Presbyterian Church, being greatly respected by all who knew him. Mr Mackintosh leaves threo sons and three daughters.

.F-UEU ASSOCIATION _________*!( ) GREYMOUTH, January _... Mr Hugh Gribben. of the Seaview Mental Hospital, died this afternoon. He had been for 33 years connected with the Hokitika Hospital, ami bad won numerous friends by his sterling qualities.

CABLE NEWS.