DEATH RECALLS GREAT GOLD RUSH TO KLONDYKE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The great Klondyke gold rush of 1898 is recalled by the death at Upper Hutt recently of Mr Adam King Jowitt, aged 75. Born at Glen Oamaru, Otago, in 1873, he went with other members of the Jowitt family to Auckland in 1886, where he was educated and won considerable prominence in rowing, cricket, and amateur athletics. In 1897 he sailed on the Miowera from Wellington to Victoria, British Columbia, to join the 1898 Klondyke gold rush. With a party of other New Zealanders he made an adventurous trek by sledge from Skagway, through White Horse pass, and on by a boat which they built themselves, through the treacherous White Horse rapids, and down the Yukon river to Dawson City, where Mr Jowitt spent eight years in mining. In 1907 he returned to Auckland and finally settled at Upper Hutt. The deceased, who was a first cousin of Lord Jowitt, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain,. is survived by his widow, two sons, anci three daughters, all of Wellington.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1948, Page 2
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