OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15693, 12 September 1916, Page 5

OBITUARY.

rEV. CANON KNOWLES

rno mnffltd tolling or the Ca^ cdra J lie restcrdav morning conveyed the that the Rer. Canon Francis £ oW lcs circlcT when the news n ' crpnerally known, lor the Igurc of Cmo. Knowte wa s «»= in the city «.<! b" Lfh for a very large nranber of years. £, n Knowles practically died in harjesß - for it was only last year that he Sped the seTeral dlocesan ° fficOS h ',ad held for many years r*!iba Knowles wa s born m Limehonw London, in 1830, and received E? at Stebon Heath House Sool, Stepney. He intended followscholastic carecr, and secured the diploma of the College of PreSr ß in W 1857 he was orncd deacon, and two year s later w as fjLinod priest in Canterbury at the tot ordination held by the late Bishop p?,mer In 1851 Canon Knowles arITaC Lyttelton by the ship TravanZt on board of which during the to New Zealand, ho conducted ftwuscript newspaper. For nine Jumlhs after ho landed he was subSr 0 f the "Lyttelton Times.'' In 1057 he became curate of Banks PcninJ?\* but two years later he returned to ?£telton, where he was curate, and jffi, -: n iB6O, vicar of Lyttelton, and Sined there till 1572. irom that vSt'dl lß7o ho was vlCar ° f f lV ß^' -Plater for two years, vicar of Bal-Ota-'o. In 1878-9 he was at Gladstone, Southland, and in 1879 he Appointed Diocesan Secretary, Re!itrar and Treasurer, and becretary of Se Church Property Trustees m the TWwese of Canterbury—positions winch £°S till last year . He became an honorarv canon of Chnstchurcli Cathe*1894. and held for some timethe honorary offices of secretary and fcSr to the Cathedral. Caoon was twice married, first W ,Kd again in 1891. Mrs Kno^os Jrodeceased her husband some months S, The late Canon Knowles ha 4 two wns, one being the Rev Walter Frank kiioWles. vicar of Amberley. The other CTg.Mr Henry J. Knowles, who was chief accountant of tho Lands and SurreyiDepartment, Wellington, who died deWtt-'vears ago. A grandson «f Qtnon Snowies. Lieut. Knowles, saw servicc in the Gallinoli campaign, and is¥fiU ; at the.front. •Dijring his long connexion with the Clroreh Tli Canterbury, Canon Knowles discharged the onerous and oxacting duties of the offices Jie held with faithfulness and ontirc satisfaction, and his death will bo deeply mourned by diuSshmen throughout the Dominion, .fie funeral of the late Canon Knowles fixed for to-morrow, and will We :19'Gloucester street at 2 p.m. THa first part of'the service; will be held iiiitHcCCathedral at 2.15 p.m M and the clergy',of the diocese have been reqnested td robe and join in the procession at the"west door. After the service in ttfoSCathedral the funeral will proceed totho; Lin wood cemetery. 'A'/Wrvice in memory of the. late CMon Knowles will be held in tho Cfcihedral •on Sunday morning, when oatf orthe leading clergy of tho diocese wilt:preach. Bishop Julius is unable the service, as he will be away iajthe country.

CANON KNOWLES AS

l JOURNALIST

journalism'in Canterbury at the

time .when Canon: Knowles was "on tho staff" ■was, in some respects, much Xtyre strenuous and exacting than it is! nowadays. The future Canon Knowlcs, who was the first 6ub-oditor of; r the "Lyttclton" Tijftes," during the , months' ho was in tho position, fre- . "ii'ont out t<3. meet incoming •ships. t&, (fcefc..* the • latest files,. of Home , ; thero_. ■ ' >jopop,/-Canon KnoviTes's retirement , offices";,last year, the "Australasian Journalist" printed the following rsferenco to him: — ■U'Trancis! Knowles, Canon of Christ- 1 ciutch-(New Zealand) Cathedral, who resigned tho multiplicity of diocesan officcs, many of which ho had hoHVfor. tho past 36 yoars, was for a bria'jpjoriod aftor .his arrivel i n Lytt«Jtoin in", 1801, an Inky Wayfarer, ntjiji'-a lawyer's office the future Canon wbotfto school-teaching, and before Jiving' England took up the work of Swpturo. reader at Halesworth. Suffolk—the parish Dr. Whately Jeft to I^MWe -Archbishop, of Dublin. On the Pjttttge from England by tho ship Tray*ncoro, he conducted a manu- , and when lie landed i toappwl up by James Edward 1 Bmgerald, then editor of the "L.vtWttn' ; ;Tjnies 1 M and afterwards founder and/fiirst editor of ''The Press." For nia& rSonths'the future Canon subbed tlfc* 'Times," but at the end of that wnod " the call of tho pedagogic profosaon proved, too strong, and for swen 'years' liq conducted a school at ?fe§£ri - : Bay in tho wilds of Banks .raunsula. , Afterwards the church clamed Jlim," and now. at 80 years of still hale and hearty, of honour. Despite his fourscte&rand five years Canon Knowles's , W l ?'aphy is still the joy of the Wtttcbufch sub-editors: clear and writing of some much , men ought to be." -A. H. RTJSSELL. old identity of Temuka on Sunday morning in tho A. H. Russell. The deborn in the Island of . Rum, . ■ Hebrides, in tho year, 1839, thus years of age. In 1875 ho camo .as foreman. of tho perniaof tho railway, from " "signed 30 vears ago. ■■started business in temuka as storekeeper and coal merchant. ' f en t an . operation last week, v j • h® did. not recover. His 1 Predeceased him many ■ years ago, eave ® three sons and two > r8 mour n their loss. MORRISON SENR. night the death occurred Morrison, senr., one of residents .of Geraldine. Ho- ' Vat : Ballywaltor, County ' f j >; jjryffv Ireland, in 1837, and sailed for ? n diggings in 1857. Some fffg§S|g[ater:.he. w .ent to tho Dunstan, as well as on the West aljgfife .engaged in storebeeping, arrived in Geraldine, !y|S|Stablished the business of mergeneral storekeepers now °f Messrs Morrison retired from business some .if^P%^S'. a go, and 16 years ago ho lost • • e ' enves three sons —Mr Morrison, who now conducts tho Morrison. °f Geraldine, vV'M'HTison, Cambridge—and daughters—Mrs W. Thomas of Mrs "W. Dawson, of an d Miss Morrison. - JOHN McCANX. : j&a* ■^°' m McCann, who was ••jCKKfltally killed in a trap accident at ' rTSrff I ? r fo n ' °n Saturday atternoon, was County Down, Ireland. He *5 ea^an d in 1669, and ■!?s'3!? ars wa s farming in partnerMr R.-Mulligan and HarnpS®Psf•». a *> Afiton, Rakaia. He sub''rPurc"ased a farm at AVester.successfully farmed tlra « death. He was of the Masonic Order, and fe*&f < ? a ®,years was a member of the Committee. His y^affijVi>?®psists ; of three sons and two Mrs McCann died about °f Riverton's early inlast week in the person SiSKPn Clode (says the ""Western , -Born ifl in 1816,

she 1 was the fourth daughter of the late Mr J as; McDonald, who, with his family, landod at .Bluff in. 1862 and settled in Riverton. In 1868 she married the late Mr Alfwsd Clode, who was at the time engaged in the carrying trade to the Lakes. TTiey entered into, possession of, the Royal Hotel, afterwards taking over the Great Western and for a .short time the Railway Hotel. Twenty-nine years ago, when the railway was opened to Colac and the sawmilling started, the family removed there, being amongst th© first settlers in the new township. Mrs Clode, whose husband predeceased her five, years ago, reared a family of eight son s "and eight daughters. The death is. announced of Mr Michael Phillips (says a Greymoiith. message). He. had been employed °y the Grey County Council for the last 28 years, and had been county clerk for the past eight years.