THE LATE MR WALTER GUTHRIE.

Evening Star, Issue 11682, 14 February 1902, Page 6

THE LATE MR WALTER GUTHRIE.

Mr Walter Guthrie, whose death we announced yesterday, came to Dunedin in 1863, at which time he was twenty-five years of aire. He was a native of Fifeshire, and was born in 1839. Not long after his arrival in Dunedin he, in conjunction with the late Hon. W. J. M. Larnach, founded the firm of Guthrie' and Larnach, hardware and timber merchants, whose extensive premises occupied a considerable portion of the frontages of Princes street south and Bond street. The late Mr Larnach relinquished the managership of the Bank of Otago to enter into this venture, which was carried on till 1883, when the partnership was dissolved, and Mr Guthrie left Dunedhi for Invercargill, where he has since resided. Four years after the dissolution of the partnership the Dunedin business premises were totally destroyed by fire. After leaving Dunedin Mr Guthrie founded the farm of Walter Guthrie and Co. in Invercargfll, which carried on business as general importers of ironmongery and hardware. He was also interested in a number of other companies, notably the New Zealand Pine Company, Dunedin Timbet:*Jsd Hardware Company, City Saw-milling Company, which came prominently before the attention of the public at- the time of the purchase of the assets of the late Colonial Bank of New Zealand. In 1897 Mr Gntbrie established the Southland SawMniui»c Company and the Southland Implement ana Engineering Company. As a business man he was shrewd and enterprising, and full of resourcefulness. He devoted his life entirely to business, and took no part in public affairs. The deceased is survived by a widow, a son, and two daughters, one of whom ie married to Mr Brent, manager of the Southland Implement and Engineering Company. At the time of his death, which took place yesterday morning at three o'clock, Mr Guthrie was sixty-three years of age.

The Science Congress at Hobart recommended that a suggestion be made that before the site of the Federal capital is determined the advice should be obtained •£ a board, to consist of archsteete, engineers, and survevors, with the addition of one or more medical men. It was also decided to request the Federal Government to reserve a site for a national museum and far the hitasinc of scientific societies in the capital. "That is a tobacco plant, my boy." * indeed! But I don't see any cigarettes on it." "F-i°rH: "What are you doing?" Poet: ■Writing a poem on autumn." Friend: "But it isn't autumn yet." Poet: "It will be-be-i for© it-sis-^ccented."-