OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16405, 27 December 1918, Page 6

OBITUARY.

A Masterton telegram announces til® death of Mr Jamos Macara, who was . well known in racing circles, and was one of tho earliest coach proprietors in ■ tlu> Wellington province. " He was 751 . years of age. , The death is announced (says a' y Press Association message) of Mr ",! 1 Alfrod Crawlev Stubbs, manager, of the Oamaru branch of - the Union. Bank. He was 60 years of age. One. of Cromwell's best-known bust* ness inen in recent years and a highly- , • respected citizen in the person of Mr 'i| James Kerin, passed away on Tues--M day at the age of 73 years, deatty: being due to a paralytic stroke which ! attacked, him four weeks ago. His association with business on the gold- v:# fields dated back 40 years, but for the last few years lie had led a retired (>;■ lifo. m, Mr W. J. Speight, of St. Bay road, Parnell, late of Epsom, has received cablc advice that "his second son, William Arthur Speight, died at .ivBa, Fiji, on the 16th inst. The lata ;;/• Mr Speight had been for the last 26 years an officer in the chemistry ' branch of the Colonial Sugar Refining ■ > Co. at Chelsea, Goondi (Queens- '* land), Svdnev, and Fiji, being at th& timo of his death manager of tho company's experimental nurseries at Ba. >■. He was educated at Newton "West school, taking the first Foundation Scholarship from that school to the ' Auckland Grammar School in 1888. He gained the Senior Foundation Scholarship at the latter school in 1890. Ho completed his education at the Auckland University, and for, a short time was teaching under the Auckland Education Board at tho Grafton road school. While living in Auckland he was a keen athlete, being ,' a prominent member of the old United Association Football Club, the AH ' • Saints' Crickct Club, and the Auck-, land Rowing Club. The deceased in his 44th year. He leaves a widovr and three sons.