OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13374, 16 March 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

PROFESSOR KERNOT. United Frees Association—By Elecirio , Telegraph—Copyngnt. jrELBOURXE, Mnrch 15. Professor Kernot, Professor of En-Kinw-riiig at Melbourne University, is dead-

Professor Kernot was bom at Rochford in 1840. end was at Christ Church School, the NaiioiuU. Grammar School, Geeloue, and Melbourne University. He ha<t been prof**s»r of .-nijuieerine at the Lnirersity sinco. ISS3. ' i

MR T. M. MACDONALD. »

(iFECIAI. TO "THE PRESS.") INVERCARGILL. March 1.". Out* of Southland's best knewn and most highly esteemed citizens, m tho person of Mr T. M. Macdonnld, passed, away suddenly at his house this momma:. ' He had been in faihuc health for some six months past. a-ml had for that period practically retired from his profession, but his condition of late did not induce the apprehension that his end was so near. On Sunday evening Mr Macdonald, with several mc-mbers i>6 his family, walked around his parden. and his genial spirits !.t-emed to betoken a return to his forirter health. This morning, however, *hen preparing to go to hia office, he suffered heart failure, and expired in a fow minutes. Mr Macdonald was born in Samoa, anil at the age of five years was taken to London to be educated. After remaining there some nine years he came to Auckland, where he was articled to the late Sir Frederick Whittakev. and was admitted as barrister and solicitor when twenty-owe- years of age. He was married in 1562. in Auckland, and came to Invercargill in that year, when he was appointed solicitor to the Provincial Government, a position he occupied until the abolition of the provinces. He was appointed Crown Solicitor, and occupied the office at tho time of his death. Mr Macdonald took a keen interest in matters educational, and was for sixteen years, consecutively, chairman of the Southland Education Board. He also rendered valuable services as an elder of the First Presbyterian Qburch, and in nil church work exhibited great enthusiasm. He also for some time conducted the Sunday afternoon Bible class, which afterwards became amalgamated with the V.M.C.A. : but it was as Crown Solicitor that Mr Macdonald was best known. He was an able advocate and keen cross-examiner, and was at all times scrupulously fair to those who came before him charged with offences against law and order. Mr Meedonald, only a month or so back, visited Hanmer for tho benefit of his health, and contemplated a trip to the Old Country, intending to leare the Dominion in about a fortnight's time. Associated with him in business were Messrs H. A. and A. M. Macdonald. who joined him on the retirement of Mr W. Russell a number of years ago. Mr Macdonald, who had been twice married leaves a widow and grown-up family, including Mr H. A. Macdonald. Mr A. M. Macdonald, Mr T. Macdonald (commission agent), and Mrs W. Quinn, or Invercargill.