OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 82, 31 December 1907, Page 5

OBITUARY.

9 . ■■•■» ■ THE ARCHBISHOP OF HOBART. dy TELEGitAi'H—mess ASSOClATlON—cormianft Hobart, December 30. " ,: Tlic doath is announced ! of the Catholic Archbishop, Dr. Murphy, tetat ninety-three. On the day of' the battle' of Waterloo, Juno IS, 1815. the Most Hcv. 'Daniel Murphy, D.D., Archbishop .of Hobart, Tasmania,'was born at. • Belmont,' County . Cork;. Ordained priest in 1838, ho volunteered for the foreign missions in India, and : proceeded to Madras in 1843 with Archbishop Carow. In IS4S Dr. Murphy was appointed Vicariate Apostolic of Hyderabad, in the ?Deccan. ' During the mntinv in 1857 he secured from. the Nizam several stands' of arms for the hoys of ' the Catholic College, who we're drilled in expectation of a mutiny arising in the State. In 185S, owing.to his'failing health,, ho was transferred to Tasmania, where he became Bishop of Hobart, and' in 18S8, after fifty .years"of his priesthood,! Hobart. was erected into .'an apchbishoprie. Dr. Murphy had, therefore... almost completed seventy years : or Church labour since his ordination. : REV. DR. FISON. ' ..".' .'■■■ '■■'■ Melbourne, December 30. [~ .: Rev.; Dr. Fisbn, ethnologist'and ex-Fijia'rt'• missionary,'.is dead. ■ ! ' ThoUcv. L. Fison, M.A., D.D., laboured'as: a Wcsleyan: missionary in Fiji for eighteen, years, and there began his ethnological, work, in 1!)05 the British Government granted, him ; a pension of .£l5O per annum for his services, to anthropology. ; . ; : . (BY TKMGRAriI—SriCIAt. CORRESPONDENT.) ■''•.'" ;•.' Dmicdin, December 30. . The death is'announced of tho wife of Mb KU. Allcn t M.P., from pneumonia. ■ (BY. telegraph—pnr.ss ; association.) ' , , ...''.''V' ■ ' Auckland,' December 30. . Several respected pioneers' havo passec ■ away with the fading of the old' year. ; Mrs. Agnes Martin, . one . of'.'Auckland's earliest colonists, having arrived in' the province, as far back as 1835/ died this morning. For three years she resided in the Bay of Islands, and two years before Governor Hobson came to Auckland removed to this city, and had resided hero ever since. ■ Anothor very old colonist; Mr. R. D. It. Dutfus, died yesterday at tiio ago of seventy. He was, a son. of tho'llev. .L Duffus, M.A.; of Mangonui,: and came to New. Zealand in 184.8. Ho was a surveyor by profession, and was formerly a .'well-known land agent of this city. ;■' "V; '■■■' •.;■.■•• •. ■ j ho death also'took place at noon to-day at Ohehunga. of Mr. Albert. Hughes, a gen- i tleman well known in sporting circles.. ; „ By cable vestcrdav • morning, Captain .T. W. M'Donald,; Adjutant, of tlio Wellington. Volunteer District, received word of the death , of his father on'Christmais Eve at TJlver,Ston, Tasmania. Tho Into Mr.Thomas M'D.bnald had been a resident: of TJlverston for! fifty • years,.' having been oiie of '■;■ its. pioneers;- He • was a member of tho party whoso prospectingoponitions led to the discovery of the celebrated Mouut Bischoff tin mine. '.', : . ■'"'Miss-Hall, daughter.of Mr. Archibald Hall,' : formerly l manager of tho Wellington tramways, died yesterday, at the ago of 23 years, from consumption. ' <. A Press Association cablegram from Sydney corrects; an earlier ono with regard to tho death of Mr. .'Amos Hcllicar, superintendent of tho Bank of Australasia. Mr. flellicar died at Melbourne, not in London. , Mrs. Wilson, wifo of Mr. Gcorgo Wilson, of tho firm of Aitken, Wilson, and Co., died at hor. residonco in Hawker Street on. Sunday. Tho Into Mrs. Wilson was a daughter of Mr. E. Foist, of Master-ton, and was very highly 'respected. Tho intorniont, will'tako placo this, afternoon. ■ ■'! r Mr. W'- H. Goorgo, of Kelburno, has received a cable mossage stating that his fatbor, who belonged ,to Worthinc, Sussex, has died in England. ■'■. ■ Tho. late Mr.. George was in his. 78th year. Mr. Sanuol; William Bongo, a well-known Mungaroa farmer, died on. Sunday' in his 52nd year. His father, Mr. David Benge, was ono of tho first settlors in tho Upper ' Hutt.'district, and the deceased, together with two older brothers, assisted him : for many yoars in tho working of tho Mungaroa sawmill. When Mr. David ,Bongo died, ,in . 1875, tho threo sons carried on the mill till 1888, w.hon they sold their interests, and' took up farming. ' '. i