OBITUARY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2785, 20 September 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

The sad nowa was received yesterday by Mrs M. C. Searle of the death at St. Albans, Christchurch, on Sunday last, of her mother-in-law, Mrs Searle, wife of Mr Walter Searle, formerly of Queemtjwn. Death must have come about very suddenly a* up till the pieviousFriday deceased was apparently in her usual state of health. No particulars of the sad event are to h rad up to the time of going to press. We can only express our deepest sympathy with the relatives in the r irreparable loss of one who was a loving wife and mother. The body will be brought to Queenstown on Wednesday night and the funeral will take placa on Thursday, leaving the Church of England at 2.30 p.m.

Mr Cornelius Maher, another of the old miners who emigrated to Otago in the early sixties, died at his residence, Arrowtown, yesterday. Deceased had reached the ripe age of 87 years so that death might be attributed to a general break-up of his health. The late Mr Maher or "Con," which name he was better known by, was born in Tipperary, Ireland. He came out to Victoria in 1856 and followed mining for several years, sailing from thence for New Zealand and finally settling down in the Cromwell district. He carried on mining in Bendigo where he was very successful. Declining years caused him to retire from active work and he then removed to Arrowtown, where he has lived for seven or eight years past. Deceased was a married man but his wife died several years ago. He was of a genial disposition and was vdry inoffensive. The fi neral will take place to-morrow.