OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR J. S. EVANS, S.M.

[Special to the ‘ Siap.’]

CHRISTCHURCH, October 6.

Mr J. S. Evans, SAL, who died at Nelson to-day, was stricken with an internal complaint three montla ago, from which no hope of recovery was field out, and his death, therefore, was npt unexpected. Mr Evans, who was fifty-nine years of age, spent the early years of his life In Southland and Central Otago,_ and had practical experience in gold* mining before taking up ■ the study of law. _ In after years the experience thus gained proved of invaluable service to him in his profession, Ire being recognised as an authority on mining law. In Queenstown ho had charge of Macalister Brothers’ legal business, and some fifteen years ago was appointed stipendiary magistrate and warden for the district. Two years later ho was transferred to Nelson m a similar capacity, and ho held the appointment up to the time of his_ death. _ He' bed acted as relieving magistrate in eefpaml places, including Wellington, and at different periods had acted on several Royal Commissions, including the Mines Commission, of 'which he was_ chairman. The Commission was responsible for_ several important amendments to the Mining Act. As chairman of a Military Appeal Board during the war he rendered" valuable service, which was recognised by tho bestowal of the 0.8. E. Deceased was regarded as a very sound jurist, _ and in very few instances were his decisions appealed against. He leaves a widow and two daughters.

Mrs Henry S. Jones died at her residence, Devonport. Auckland, on October 2, aged eighty-eight years, having lived in that district for over a quarter of a century, 'With her husband, who was well known here as member of the staff of P. Hayman and Co., Mrs Jones was a former resident of Dunedin. The death occurred at St. Kilda last night of Mr William Henry Middleton, aged sixty-one years. Deceased was born in Cornwall, England, in 1861, and arrived in New Zealand in 1882. He was elected to the now defunct Cayersham Borough Council in the year 1903, and took a keen interest in public affairs generally. „ Mr Janies Black, who died aWWntan© this week, first took up his residence in tlio Waikouaiti district over half a century ago. For a number of years he was engaged at contracting, among other tindertaldngs being a contract at Mullocky Gully in the construction of the Otago Central' Railway, and his enterprises also included tho shipment of racehorses to Now South Wales, where he raced them and sold them. A noteworthy incident in his career was his participation, along with, three of his sons, in the ill-fated “Now Australia” project for tho establishment, under Mr William Lane, of a communistic colony in Paraguay. Mr Black lived to tho groat age of ninety-, nine years, and -retained robust healthy up to the concluding years of his exceptionally‘long existence. A London cable reports the death of Tom Annitage, Yorkshire professional, aged 74. Ho was a member of Lillywhite’s Australian team in 1876.” The deceased visited Dunedin in March, 1877, and played against Otago on the Oval. The report of the match says that Annitage showed very bright cricket for England. Ho made 26 out of tho total of 163. Other members of the team were Hill, Ulyett, Pooley,. Jupp, (Selby, and Lilly white.