OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15606, 3 May 1911, Page 11

OBITUARY.

SIR C. A. P. PELLETIER. i United Preso Association —By Eleotrio | T olegraph—Copy right. VANCOUVER. May 1. The death is reported of Sir Charles A. P. Pelletier, K.C.M.G., LieutenantGovernor of the province of Quebec. (Sir Charles Pelletier was born in 1837. He held various important offices. From 1896 to 1901 lie was Speaker of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed to the Supremo Court Bench in 1902, and became LieutenantGovernor in 1908.) E. J. RIDDIFORD. [Per Press Association.l PALMERSTON NORTH, May 2. Mr E. J. Riddiford, the largest payer of taxes, and especially of graduated tax, in New Zealand, died at 2 p.m. to-day of heart failure. He had been ill for some time, but had rallied recently. A grand-nephew, Basil Forster Pratt, died here at eight o’clock this morning, of appendicitis, after a very brief illness, and his death was a shock to Mr Riddiford. Mr Riddiford’s body will be taken to his old home at the Hutt for tho funeral. Ho was the first child baptised in New Zealand by Bishop Selvvyn, and his father, who arrived in Wellington in 1839, brought out with him the first house erected at Pipitea Point. Mr Riddiford has left three sons and three daughters. He was the wealthiest mail in fsow Zealand, and had large properties in tho Manawatu and AVairarapa districts. “ LARRY ” MARKET. Mr Lawrence Markey, familiarly known almost throughout Now Zealand as “ Larry ” Markey, died yesterday in the Cliristchurch Hospital, aged seventy-eight. Mr Markey was one of the pioneers of New Zealand, a true type of the Irish sportsman who loved horses and the sport they provided for their own sake, and it was this love of horses and sport that lod him to settle in Canterbury, at Ivowai Pass, where he was a farmer and studmaster for forty years. Mr Markey was born in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1833. Ho came out to tho Victorian golddiggings in 1853, but proceeded soon afterwards to Launceston, where his brothers joined him in 1855. Subsequently he went back to Victoria, but landed finally in Canterbury about 1865, and settled down at Springfield. Mr Markey owned some of the finost horses ever bred in tho district. Ho imported some stallions from Australia, including Messenger and Python, and a number of brood mares which have left their impress upon the thoroughbred stock of the dominion. He bred and ran several successful steeplechasers, notably Mousetrap, the winner of the Grand National in 1878, and wa3 a particularly fine nidge of cross-coun-try horses, and, as lie liked to say himself. of cross-country men. Mr Markey’s integrity and love of straight running earned him a wide circle of friends. lie was a popular host, and was most kindly and hospitable to the needy sportsman or cross-country rider, who always found' a welcome waiting at his door. Mr Markey was wedded to his Canterbury home, and to all the urging of his friends to return to Tasmania lie replied that ho could not live three weeks without a horse. He was joined many years ago by his brother, Mr Patrick Markey, who was drowned in the Waimakariri River. Mr John Markey, another brother, of St Mary’s, Tasmania, came over to New Zealand this year, and was with deceased at the end. Mr Markey was unmarried. He will be held in affectionate remembrance by a large circle of friends who had learnt to appreciate his sterling character and kindly disposition.