OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13783, 23 June 1905, Page 3

OBITUARY.

EVAN FINLAYSON. [Per Press Association.! WHANGAREI, June 22. The death is announced of Mr Evan Finlayson, a well-known old resident. A. STOTT. [From: Our Correspondent,] WELLINGTON, June 22. An old Imperial and New Zealand veteran named Abraham Stott, aged seventy-four years, died in the hospital to-day. Ho was with the 49th Regiment in the West Indies, and afterwards served with the 57th in New Zealand, being through the Maori War from 1863 to 1867. Afterwards ho entered the Armed Constabulary, and was under Colonel Whitmore in the expedition against Tito Kowaru, and was in the expedition into the Urewera against Te Kooti, taking part in the engagements in the Ruatahuna Valley. He was subsequently located at Gisborne, was identified with the Volunteer forces, firstly with the Gisborne Rifles, then (in 1880) the Wellington Guards, the Opunaki Rifles in 1881, and the Wellington Guards again in 1883, getting his discharge in 1884. Mr Stott was a carpenter, and worked at his trade till about eight years ago, when ho fell from a building, and has since then been disabled. He leaves a widow, six sons and three daughters. JOHN ORR. , [From Our Correspondent.] ASHBURTON, June 22. News was received here to-day of the death at Sydney of Mr John Orr, a prominent business _ man for the last twenty-seven years in Ashburton. He came to the colony from Ireland in 1863, and was for some time on the West Coast. He started business in partnership with Mr Andrew Orr hero, in 1877, the partnership being dissolved fn 1882. He leaves a widow, four sons and two daughters. Deceased was at one time Mayor of Ashburton, and was a prominent member of the Wesleyan Church. THOMAS ANDREWS. Th© death occurred on Wednesday of Mr Thomas Andrews, who arrived at Nelson by the Bolton, in 1842. He was the first man to quarry stone in the South Island, and won the first prizes given in the South Island for wheat and barley. Ho went to Ashburton thirty years ago, and followed the occupation of a bricklayer till the time of his death. Ho leaves a. widow and family of nine. He was eighty years of age. Yesterday an old identity passed away at Kaiapoi, in the person of Mr John Thomas Winterbourn, aged eighty-two l years. The deceased arrived at Lyttelton in 1858 by the ship Regina, and entered the employment of Messrs Cookson and Bowler, Kaiapoi, as storeman. He afterwards commenced business on his own account as a turner, and later opened a general store. Mr Winterbourn was a corporal in the “Blue Jumper” Brigade, and was present at the first two encampments at Hillsborough.