OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 10

OBITUARY.

ADMIRAL I.UARD. . United Pross Association—By Eloctrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, .May 19. The death is announced of .Admiral Sir Win. Garnharo Luard, as the result of a carriage accident. Admiral Sir William Garnham Luard, • R.C.8., the Grand Old Man of £he Navy, and one of tbo most respected personalities in. the county of • Ksscx, celebrated bis ninetieth birthday quietly last month at Witham Lodge, his residence, near Witham. "Long -Jerry,'-' as his men affectionately called liim ■when ho was commander of the Indefatigable in the fifties, first went to soa at the" age of fifteen, when he joined H.M.S. Actason, and he witnessed during his long career the transition from the "wooden walls" of Nelson's time to the great floating forts of steel which are th« battleships of to-day. MR HAY SMITH. In recent years no farmer on Kaiapor Island was better known or more sincerely respected than Mr Hay Smith, whose death took place yesterday, after a few week's illness, during which he underwent a serious operation. He was a .native of Crmlcn, in Abcrdeonshiro, and his age was about sixty-eight. Mr Smith, who remained a. bachelor, arrived in Canterbury by the ship Metropolis iorty-pjglit years' ago. Being possessed of energy and determination, Mr Smith gained some experience with the lato Mr John 'Stevenson at Flaiton and with Messrs Bclchnr and Fairveathor, and then rented some of the Church of England Estate. About thirty-four years ago Mr Smith purchased tho farm at Clarkvillc, and added to !t tho fnrms of Messrs W. Laun..', J. Wbitmore, J. Taylor D-. Coutte and U. Walls. His tannine was upon the most approved lines, and the value of his experience was greatly onpr«iated by those who sou«ht adn'co ?n to pn^ tatlo "« f crepe or other pointe in arable cultivation, vr stock breed- ;*•»»* year Mr Smith vfcited Great Britain and America, and never quit^ tiiat trip He took a part in TtoiA Board. «hool Church and other P S matters and h, s death will canw a i°-Kl \t\ co f minUnit - v , in Avhicij I'o lived und was most sincerely resprcted.