OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIX, Issue 11540, 29 March 1898, Page 5

OBITUARY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright. Received March 28,10.10 a.m. LONDON. March 27. . The death is announced of James Payn, the novelist; aged sixty-eight. Received March 29,12.50 a.m. ; March 28. The late Charles Stuart Parnell** mother died at Avondale being severely burnt, the-result-of -a©, accident. [Pbr Press Association.] WELLINGTON, March 28. Mr Murrell, manager for Messrs Huddart, Parker and Company, has received, advice of the death at Melbourne of Mv Ernest J. Parker, managing director of the firm. Mr Parker had been ailing for some months, but was able to attend' to business, and his death was sudden. I GEORGE PATERSON. One of the oldest identities of the colony, Mr George Paterson, of Kaiapol, passed away on Sunday, at 9.15 p.m. Mr Paterson was educated at Heriot’s Hospitail, Edinburgh, his father and himself being freemen of that city. Mr Paterson was born during the reign of George IIL, and remembered well the visit of William IV. to Edinburgh, and also the alarms that caused the yeomanry of the surrounding districts to be called out to meet an expected French invasion. In 1838 Mr Paterson sailed for Melbourne, and spent some months there. He afterwards acted as manager for Messrs Learmouth Brothere, on their Ercildonn Estate, and met wilffi many curious adventures among bushrangers and blacks. He figures as a character in Kingsley’s “ Geoffrey Hamlyn.” After being on the goldfields at Ballarat and Geelong, Mr Paterson cams to Dunedin, where he bought laud for an Australian syndicate. Later on he came to Canterbury, and for a few months had charge of the Hon W. Robinson’s estate at Cheviot, and was afterwards with Mr Joseph Pearson, of Burnt Hill. He explored that part of North Canterbury known as Staircase Gully. In the early sixties he was manager for the late Captain Millton on the View Hill Range, and left his employment to take up a small run at Otaraaua, known as Paterson’s Creek. Finally he settled at Kaiapoi Island, but eventually retired from farming, and died as stated at Kaiapoi.