OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 18029, 25 July 1922, Page 6

OBITUARY

MR J. EDWARDS., Tlic half-masting of the ‘ Evening Star ’ flag to-day was on account of the death of M.v Joseph Jfd'wards, who held tlio position of canvasser for about twenty-three years, and was probably as well known as any private citizen in and about Dunedin. He had not been very well for about three weeks, and went into a. private hospital to have a- growth in the nose removed. Tho. trouble proved to he more extensive than ho thought, and' internal complications supervened, causing his death a little before daylight this morning. The office is very sorry to lose Mr Edwards, and ho had hosts of personal friends who will sincerely mourn his death, for ho was mannerly and of a genial nature, and firm in his friendships. Chess was one of his hobbies, and 1 he won tho dominion championship one year. Rowling also occupied part of his spare time, and ho frequently played for the Caledonian Club. He was brought up in Nelson ; learned the drapery business, in which, lie was employed at Invercargill, Timaru, and Wellington; then accepted tho position of traveller for Mills, Hick, and C 0.,; and subsequently joined the ‘ Evening Star ’ staff. His first wife died about eight years ago. Several members of that, family are in Wellington and Timaru. He married a second time, and the present Mrs Edwards is left with one son.

By the death of Mrs S. Yoisoy, Port Chalmers has lost another of her very earliest residents. Mrs Voisev, with her parents, tho late Mr and Jlrs George Christie, arrived in Lyttelton early in 1862 by the ship Zoalandia, and a few days afterwards left Lyttelton in the tug Geelong for Port Chaimers, where Mrs Voiscy has resided ever since. Deceased was of a very quiet, retiring disposition, and only tho early residents of Port Chalmers and those who came into personal touch with her-know her real worth to the community. .She' leaves a. grown family of three sons and two daughters to mourn her loss. • Tho death of Mr Thomas William Wright, another of Now Zealand’s early pioneers, occurred at his residence, Wellington, last week, at the advanced ago of seventy-nine. Tho late Mr Wright came from Dumfries, Scotland, and arrived in Now Zealand with his parents and other members of the family in 1870 by the ship Lady E-gidia. With his father and brother .he- was present ab tho Gabriel’s Gully gold rush. In 1877 ho joined the railway' service, advancing to the rank of station master, which position ha held at big retirement.