OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18107, 24 June 1924, Page 13

OBITUARY.

IjIR W. WIXSTOXE. JflS association nixauut.) *■■■ AUOia-AND, June 23. this announced of Mr "Wilfounder of ibe fan in 1*59. In the Maori **?' had charge of the transport, if te ' an undertaking of some iii* ff as tlie Maoris frequently !s*.. from ambush. AVjnstone, $a celebrated its diamond jubi&*\hTch last, the deceased presid- ((!»«" leaves a widow and married

!Wh occurred suddenly in SydMr G erald (" Gerrv ") H-'ir-(f »i» well-known actor. He was with "The Bat." telegram announces the 3 *!rf Captain Walter Frnte'r, eighty - $ rears, for many years in busiyf'fjib. his brother in a land agency If m and well-known resident of Mr Daniel Twohiil, died folIt7n operation, at the age of 73 ITffobill, who was a familiar figure Eke racing world, was born in County if T r e!and, and arrived as a boy f ,t e West Coast of the South Island W his father, the late Mr Edmund alill After s P cndin K ,lis younger §'!, jn the South Island, ho went to inland, where he was proprietor of ■ Park Hotel, which stood opposite I Public Library in Wellesley street ff e . jf e a ]go owned a number cr* Khones. including the well-known IL Cinderella, dam of the great raci, WJ Oinderellen. Mr Twohiil, I his earlier days, went to Australia become an accountant for Mr Humirey Oxenham, the well-known hors-.-rte 7 Later he became proprietor 'several hotels in New South Wales. here he married. Upon his return v cff Zealand he made his headquar. !„ in Auckland. Mr Twohiil came of noted athletic family, his brother illK the noted athlete Patrick Twoill He himself won a number of m and trophies during his younger ,y, at Timaru, the West Coast, and t Thames.

Atolonist of over 60 years' standing, j, James Clarke, died last week at le residence of his son-in-law, the te Jasper Calder, Auckland, at th«; winced age of 89. Mr Clarke, who ffl !)orn at Lisburn, County Antrim, Inland, in 1835, had lived in four «jii, He arrived in Auckland in Iff} in the ship Owen Glendower, and jijliy afterwards went to the Thames fields in the boom period, i and bene associated with the famous Caleaiamine- Subsequently he em'barklnpori farming in the Waikato, where bred pedigree Jerseys. About 20 in ago he retired, and lived a 1 jngarei. His wife predeceased him lyears ago, and about that time he lit to reside in Auckland. Mr ftie leaves two sons, Messrs H. flab- and M. Clarke, of Whanfcarei. i/fliree daughters, Mrs Dr. A. BuektT (of Zamo), Mrs t A. Le Sieur (of Nnora), and Mrs Jasper Calder (of Itfkland - ). '

!. iir;Abraham Absolum, who died at kftend last week, was formerly in is Jepostal service for many years. >' • le was horn at Otahuhu in 1857, and " 7 M the Post and Telegraph Depart,n 1 irat as a cadet. , He later was ap,4 wted to the Washdyke station, and b its transferred to Timaru. After act»t- i{. sg postmaster at various small w wnsliips,' he was appointed relieving 18 ' Iter., Subsequently he served as l_ ail agent on the San Francisco ruu. B ," [ten Mr Absolum was on the West U; |& of the, South Island for about $' lyears, and finally, in. 1891, was P. pointed "postmaster and registrar of *.'• rtha, death's, and marriages at Dargalle. He was afterwards transferred I Kjiikn-jra. Mr Absolum leaves a nu lifVand family.