OBITUARY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14759, 1 September 1913, Page 9

OBITUARY.

' ¥ : (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received August 31st, 5.5 p..vi.) LONDON, August 30. The death is announced of Alfred Hirst, tho blind philanthropist.

JUDGE WARD.

His Honour Charles Dudley Robert MVard, late District Court Judge in Otago, who died at hus residence .in Dunedin on Satur-, day, • was tho eldest son of Sir Henry George Ward, G.C.M.G., of Gilston Fark, Herts. Mr Ward was educated at' Rugby and at Wadham College, Oxford. After studying law at tho Inner Temple he was called to tho Bar in 1853. and arrived in New Zealand on the 30th of September of the following year. Ho was returned to the House of Representatives for the Wellington country district in 1855, and on the Ist of June, 1857, ho was appointed chairman of the Courts of Sessions of the Peaco for tho Province of Wellington, and presiding judge of tho Magistrates' Courts for Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa, and Wanganui. On January Ist, 1864, Mr Ward was appointed Resident Magistrate at Wellington, and two years later he was made District Judge for Wellington Wanganui, Marlborough, . and Hawke _ Bay. In September, 1867, Judge Ward was appointed Acting Supreme Court Judge m Dunedin. His appointment as District Judge for Westland, Southland, and Otago, dates from Juno lst, 1869, Subsequently he was Acting Supreme Court Judge at Aupkland in September, 1886, at Christchurch , in, September, 1887, and at Dunedin in September, 1887, and at Dunedin in March, 1894, His Honour declined a permanent appointment on tho Supreme Court bench in Juno,' - 1896, and an Acting Supremo Court judgeship in tlio following year. Ho was married in 1851, but had no children. Mrs Ward died in May, 1890,