OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 16664, 21 February 1918, Page 1

OBITUARY

The death is announced at Auckland of Mr Gerhard John Muller, ex-Commis-sioner of Crown Lands at Auckland and ex-Assistant Surveyor-General} aged 83 •Tito 3 - K f H 6n in Ncw Zealand since l«oB, and had been connected with the Civil Service since 1865.

Mi* Fra.nk Hutchinson, an old resident of Gore, died 0,1 Saturday night. He -was born in 1838, at Portarlingfcon, Queen's County, Ireland, and in 1860 came out to Otago. He was the owner of a rural selection on the Otago Peninsula and a town section at Dimedin, but when the diggings broke out disposed of hist land and followed the life of a digger Tor years, being present at the rushes' to Gabriel's Gully, Dunstan. Arrow, Shotover, and other fields. He came to Switzers at an early stage of its existence, and continued there for some years, during which time he was married. Mrs Hutchinson died between four and five months ago. Leaving Waikaia in the middle of the seventies, deceased was for some time an overseer in road construction work on the Waimea Plains, after which he resided in the Otamita district for a time, and later, farmed a property near Gore. Leaving this about 1839. Mr and Mrs Hutchinson settled on their property in Broughton street, Gore. Kews of the sudden death of Mr Arthur Woodhouse, a well-known Melbourne jouralist, will be read -with feelings of regret by a wide circle of and acquaintances. Mr Woodhouse (says the 'Argus') (had been ill for only two days prior to his death. Born in Melbourne in 1861,' he was the .sixth son of the late Frederick Woodhouse. the elder, one of Victoria's earliest artists. His journalistic career commenced 38 years a.<ro, on the ' Daily Telegraph/ and was subsequently carried on in connection with other newspapers in Victoria and other parts of the Commonwealth. His connection with the Central Press Agency and parliamentary reporting made him widely known of late years. He was the author of two published bookfi, 'Foundations of Nitional Greatness' and 'The Man with the Apples' (fiction), and was also a writer of articles on political and national subiects. Mr Woodhouse was married, and leaves a young widow.