OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1278, 6 November 1911, Page 4

OBITUARY.

ES-INSPECTOB PENDER DEAD. Mr. Peter Pender, some ti mo Inspector of Police for die V.Vllhigion district, died at Clmstclnirch yesterday mcruin.T. He had been unwell for onlv a week past, but at his great nje, about ki ytae, any illness could scarce b" other than a serious matter. Deceased was born in Mcxford, Ireand, where nc was educated. Ho followed Ins parents' occupation of farmin? as a boy, but when still » youUi, lie joined the Koyal Irish Constabulary In due course ho was promoted to tlio rank of sergeant, mid at the time of the omith-O'linen troubles he did duty in some of the disturbed districts. In' IS.Vt he joined Iho Mounted Staff Corps known as Lord P.a s !an's, and with tlio company served I brinish the Crimean war, bfinj present duvins (ho ■doi'c- of Solx.stopol and in the linal assault which Jed lo the fall of the fortress and afterwards at (lie Battle of Tcheaere. \fter some fnrlher service in Turleev-in-Uh ho returned to Ireland, and rejoined tlio Constabulary. In IS5t! Mr. Pender la.iidcd in Victoria, and. .after trvhu- hi, luck on the Ovens Goldfiekl, he joined the Victorian police as a constable. In ISC'2, ho with three others volunteered to assist in the ~( , l1 (. e forco or Canterbury, and in 18G1 bo was promoted to the rank of inspector. Ho was transferred to Wellington in Ifwo which district he controlled' until his retirement from the force on pension i u March, 1902. Inspector Pender held the Crimean medal with the Srba«lopnl clasp, the Turkish medal, and the New Zealand loner-service medal. Tin Into Inspector Pender leaves an adult family of six-two sons and four daughters The sons arc Mr. Arthur Pender, of \\o!lin«l<in. and Mr Prank Pender, who is on the stall of the Bank of Aew Zealand at Ashburton The -•-titers are Mrs. I.ee, of Sumner, and Misses Grace, Mary, and Eileen Pend.-r, who reside m fln-islchurch. Mrs. Pender predeceased her husband by about 20 years.