OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 183, 28 April 1908, Page 7

OBITUARY.

0 MR. THOMAS WILKINSON. Mrj, iThomas , Wilkinson, licensee of tho , Island Bay Hotel, died tliero yesterday at the ago of- 74 years. The deceased; whb : in 'England,' went■; oiitv to 'Australia, at the:. timo ■of the gold rush, aiul after ; the.; usual. roving life on .the 'goldfieids , he! crossed,, over .to the West Coast' of iNew . Zealand in 1865, and was engaged in goldmining pursuits at Reef ton for many years. ~ He subsequently,;visited Western Australia, V but returned later to New Zealand; and took . a lease 'of. aii hotel- at-'Waitara. 1 : Later still ,i he, in: Wellington,, and -was at different tltaes licensee of Jhe ,Princess Theatre Hotel, tho Alhambra Hotel, and finally the • Island Bdy Hotel. Ho leaves a widow and grown-up family of " three sons and two : ' daughters.• j" ..- MR. G. ST. CLAIR. . The ■ death ■is announced of Mr. George St. Clair, head , metallurgist of tho Waihi Grand -Junction Co; The deceased, v/ho had been ill for a: long time, was born in Colchester; England, 111 1865, and came to New Zealand m 1874. .- AN EARLY SETTLER. (BY tfiLTLOßAPlT.—special correspondent). , 1 ' < Christchurch, April 27.. ~ Mrs; J. MacFarlane, of Coldstream, North Canterbury, who died on Friday night," fahk- : ' ed liiribtig tho';-very earlieiit colonists, having' arrived in Wellington with her father, Mr" ' Donald \ Cameron, in; the' ship Blenheim in 1841. v.' Seven' years, later, sh'e married. Mr. John . MacFarlane, Who had landed in .Nelson in 1842, arid 'afterwards removed—to : Wellington. In 1850, three weeks before the arrival of the first'four ships; sho and her husband came to Canterbury and took up ■ the Loburn run, ■tf hern they livnd until 18G2. They then removed to Coldstream, where Mr. MacFarlane died in 1884. Mrs. MacFarlarie has left six sons, four of whom are wellknown Amuri. pastoralists, while the oldest has Coldstream. EX-JUDGE MONRO. V . (BY- TELEGRAPH;—I'iIESS ASSOCIATION.) ■ • Auckland, April' 27. ' Ex-Judgo Monro, of the Native Land Court, died on Saturday, aged 84". Somo . weeks ago he was knocked down by a cy'c-. list and'severely bhiisod. Coiifmement to , his bed brought oh trbublo which necessitated a: surgical operation. This was performed on Saturday morning, and in the . evening "he expired suddenly from heart failure; • ,' : Deceased was born in Hobart in: 1824, and educated_ at. Thompson's Academy in thatrcity.; His -father,_ Mr. Peter 'Monro, removed to Hokiahga in 1835, . and on tho ■outbreak of Heke's war shifted again to Auokland.- .Deceased at first started farming at Tamakiy but wdsVappointed blerk and interpreter- m the Native Office in, 1857, and Judge of the > Native Land Court in 1860. Ho acted as assessor in. the Compensation Court in connection - with the confiscated • Native lands, and. was appointed commissioner for, the settlement, of-the claims of the Poverty Bay friendliek .