OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 8

OBITUARY.

;..-■ ME. C. H. WILLIAMS. The death occurred last evening of Mr. Charles Henry, Williams, lessee of Barrett's Hotel, and • well known as a resident of Karori and Wellington' of many years standing. The,deceased had been ill for some eight weeks" past, and 'succumbed in'the private hospital to which he had been, confined for tue past'week. Mr. Williams,-'who' was' a.native .of Birmingham,, was born in 1847. He learned the electro-plating trade at Home, being apprenticed to the firm of Perkins, the well-known locket-makers, of Birmingham. He came out,to New Zealand in the ship Pleiades in 1867, and took up pursuits in, the' Wellington district. Subsequently, he .started in busiB ?. ss ln Wellington as a tobacconist, but after a few years saw an opening for an electro-plating and engraving business m which he was a specialist, and for many years successfully'." pursued his trade in Upper Willis, Street. . Some three,years..ago he took over the.lease of the Upper Hutt Hotel, ,whioh he relinquished to take over Barrett's Hotel about six months ago. He resided for many years in' Karori, arid was'fdrsome time a member of the Karori Borough Council. He leaves a widow and two 'so Walter George Williams and Francis Herman Williams, who reSide in Wellington.. Deceased was well known in Masonic circles. .