OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14982, 30 April 1909, Page 9

OBITUARY.

G. P. CAREY, ACTOR. United Preai Aiaociation— By Electric' • Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, April 29. The death is announced of Mr G. PCarey, the actor. Ho was for forty years connected with the Australian stage- ; 'i :

:■ (the late G. P. Carey was one,of the beet known and meet popular figures of :the Australian stage. For years he . ''was''associated with the production of ■ inelcdiinma, and he had paid mauy visits to'New Zealand, the last of which was towards the end of 1908, when he hrurft'i i.hmigh tho dominion with Mcyiiell and Gunn’s, company,V headed by \ Wise Beatrice Holloway and Mr Ed- ... ■ yard Leicester. Mr Carey was then playing old men’s parts, characters in which he had few Superore in Australasia. Hie tteath was 'not unexpected, for he had been ailing for some time, and recentlv lie had to retire from active work. Mr Carey’s son, Mr fledge Carey, is now of Mr J. 0. 'Williameon’b dramatic stage managers, and ho made his first hit in the part of Billy, .in “ Sherlock '.Holmes,” with Cuyler Hastings.)

'■ ) ' TPeb Press AssncuTroN' l r.: . THAMES; April 2ft. The death is announced. of Mr Robert Stone, a very old resident of the Thames, said to be the fir6t man in New Zealand to build a steamer. He took the first, stoamor out of Auckland, harbour i

The “ Otago Daily Times” stetes that news was received, ill Dunedin on 'Wednesday of The death at, Auckland of Mr Henry J. Matthews, for thirteen tears,, Chief’ Forester - for New Zealand. , For , some' time past Mr Matthews had suffered from an internal complaint, and on hiis recent visit to Rotorua • the symptoms became acute to a degree that necessitated his undergoing 1 a critical, .operation. This was successfully performed on April 17, and for ten days subsequently tho patient’s condition steadily improved, liritil on Sunday last lie was able to .move about in a wheel chair. On Tuesday night, however, alarming 'symptoms set in, whioh culminated in his death at 6 o’clock on-Wednesday ■' .'morning. Mr Matthews was very i widely known, throughout Otac-o and, Indeed, 'all over the dominion, .through •his connection with the numerous state nurseries and plantations scattered from’end to end of the Islands, and lilgo .from the fact that lie had three

years’ continuous travelling in wild and* remote localities as a momber of the Scenic Reserves Commission. His practical training in carpentry and cabinet-making, together . with _ his ' thbrotlgh acquaintance with the science of forestry and a wide knowledge of botany, made him specially fitted for the position which he held. Mr Matthew? ia survived by a young widow, 'but leaves no family.