OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13710, 18 April 1910, Page 7

OBITUARY.

SIR WILLIAM ORCHARDSON

United Proaa Association—By Electric Tolograph—Copyright. LONDON, April 14. The death is announced of Sir William Orchard-ion, R.A., the artist. , Sir William Quiller Orchardson, ' R.A., D.0.L., who was born in Edinburgh in 1855, wa_ a painter of subject pictures and portraits. Ho first exhibited at the Royal Soottkh Academy and at the Royal Academy in 1863, being elected an A.R.A. m 1867, and R.A. in 1877. Among his notable works are "Ine Challenge" (1865), "Christopher Sly" (1&66), "Nanoleon on Board the Bellerophon" (1880), "Un Mariage die Cbnvenance" (1881), and its sequel (1886), "The Salon of Madamo Recamier" (1S85), "The Rift Within the Lute" (1887), "The Young Duke" (1887), "Blossoms Fair 5 ' and "In the Gloaming (1001).

(PEESS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAMS.) WHANGAREI, April 16. Hoterene te Kamiti, a notable Maori chief of the Ngatimanu tribe, died at Waiomio, near Kawa Kawa, on Thursday evening. He was a great grandson of Te KaWai, who was one of Hcke's generals during the Maori war. The natives are gathering in large numbers from all parts of the North to attend the tangi. . AUCKLAND, April 16. The death is announced of Mr J. MoK. Geddes, of the firm of Brown, Barrett, and Co., aged 66 years.

A gentleman well-known in commercial circles throughout New Zealand — Mr F. G. Roaoh, head of the firm of Messrs F. G. Roach and Co., manufacturers' agents, Harbour street, Wellington— died on Friday, the cause of death being dropsy, from which he had been suffering for some eighteen months. A cable message was received in Wellington on Friday, announcing the death, at Castlemaine, Victoria, of Mr John Thompson, formerly of Wellington. The deceased was for many years a leading merchant in Wellington. He uas born near Belfast Ireland, in 1841, and came out to Melbourne in the steamer Great Britain in 1864. After spending some time at Oastlemaine, where his brother was in business, he Went to Westlandj and entered the drapery business ln'Greymouth with his cousin, Mp- James Barkly. In 1874 he came up to Wellington and joined Mr G. V. Shannon in establishing a soft goods business in Panama street, with branches at Auckland. Christchurch, and Napier. In 1887 Mr Shannon retired from the firm, and two years later Mr Thompson sold the business to Messrs Hallenstein Bros., and on the site of the warehouse a part of the D.I.C. building now stands. Mr Thompson then left for Castlemaine, where he and his neohew purchased a large foundry. Tho "late Mr Thompson took a great interest in racing, and was one of the most active officers of the Wellington Racing Club for many years. As a compliment to him, the club created the Thompson Handicap, an annual fixture. The death occurred rather suddenly at Rotorua on Thursday evening (the "Post" reports) of Mrs Waldegrave, wife of Mr F. Waldegrave, Under-Secretary of the Justice Department. Mr and Mrs Waldegrave were on a visit to Rotorua, and while engaged in playing a game of croquet Mrs Waldegrave received a stroke of paralysis, and passed away a few hours later. Mrs Waldegrave was a daughter of the late Mr Henry Howarth, barrister, of Wellington. Mrs Harry Atkinson and Mrs Sidney Fitzberbert (who is now on her way to England) are daughters, and Mrs Amolius Smith, wife of the Secretary of the Public Service Superannuation Department, is a sister of deoeas-

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