OBITUARY.
MR R. W. FEREDAY. One of the oldest Canterbury colonists has passed away in the person of Mr R. W. Fereday, who died yesterday, at the age of eighty years. Mr Fereday was perhaps one of tlie oldest members of the legal profession in Canterbury of English training, •having been admitted as an attorney in 1849. After practising for some years in England, he came to Canterbury in the early sixties, and for the first few years of his life as a. colonist lived on his brother's station at Rakaia. In 1864 he was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, and was a recognised authority on conveyancing. For many years Mr Fereday was a member of the council of the Law Society. Mr Fereday was a selftaught artist of no mean ability, and was also well known as a naturalist. For some years he was a member of the Board of Governors of Canterbury College, and always took a keen interest in the welfare of that institution. He also took a leading part in the growth and development of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society and the Philosophical Institute. Some years ago he Avas well known, both in the cricket field and at the archery butts. He was of a quiet and retiring disposition, and took no part in political life.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CII, Issue 11984, 31 August 1899, Page 3
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OBITUARY.
Lyttelton Times, Volume CII, Issue 11984, 31 August 1899, Page 3
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