OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MR MARCUS STONE, R.A,

(By Cable—Press .Association—Copyright.) (Auitraliaji and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Received March 27th, 5.5 p.m.") LONDON, March 26. The death is announced of Mr Marcus Stone, R.A. • [Tne late Mr Marcus Stone, was bom in 1840, anct was elected an R.A. in 1884. He had exhibited at 63 consecutive exhibitions of the R.A., and had l received medals at the international exhibitions of Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Chicago, and Melbourne.]

SIR HENRY WEEDON. MELBOURNE, March 27. The .death.is announced of Sir Henry tveedon, ex-Lord 1 Mayor of Melbourne." MR P. JONG. Mr Patrick King, who died at .Glentunnel recently, was born in Dublin in 1834. When 11 years of age\he took to the sea, and was' round the world four tim©3, ifnally sailing for Lyttelton in the Waipara, of 4? tons, the trip taking 6$ months. For a . while - he was engaged in bringing coal from the "West Coast, but finally he left the aea, and worked on the Lyttelton tunnel, and also took on carting for Messrs Holmes and Richardson. Later on he drove one of Cobb and Co.'s coaches from Warner's Hotel to Springfield, also to Little, River, at a time when there were no formed roads. Leaving: the coach-driving, lie became a cabman in Chrfcstchurch, and was well known as "Paddy the Oabrnan." Ho had- the misfortune to be kicked by a horse, which fcompelled him to give up cabdriving. Ho then purchased the Whitecliffs Hotel, but in I88"l his health broke down, and he leased the hotel and took a trip to Melbourne at the time_ of the exhibition {here. On returning, hey liVed in Christchurch. for a while, and then took over the Whitecliffs Hotel again, leaving it to take charge of the Glentunnel Hotel. In his later years he kept a market garden in Glentunnel. and was a well-known personality. His stories of the old days iVero always listened ■to with interest by old and young. He was st Freemason of the- Robert Burns Lodge, and in his younger days was a member of the Hororata, Racing Club,. South Malvern Road Board, .Domain Board, and School- Committee. He married Helen, the only child of John McKenzie, of.Rothesay, Scotland. Hia wife predeceased him 36 years-, ago. He leaves a family of four sons and four daughters, 19 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. For the paijfc 15 years he had lived mostly, with his daughter, Mrs J. Blair, of Glentunnel. Deceased was buried: in the South Malvern Cemetery. A large number of pepple followed the remains, and sent floral tributes: