OBITUARY.

Northern Advocate, 1 September 1913, Page 5

OBITUARY.

LONDON, Aug. 30. Alfred Hirst; the blind philanthrophist and wool expert, is dead. Tempest Anderson, a prominent opthalmic surgeon, died from enteric in the Suez Canal on his homeward journey from the Phillipines.

DUNEDIN, Sept. 1. Ex-Judge C. D. R. Ward is dead, aged 86. His remains will he interred in Christchurch.

Mr Ward was for many years one of the most conspicuous figures on the judicial bench of New Zealand. He was a judge of the District Court, and at the time of his retirement from the bench and for a number of years previously was sole District Court Judge in the Dominion. He was a man of outstanding ability on the bench and a terror to the dishonest bankrupt. Mr Ward emigrated to New Zealand in 1854 and became a member of the House of Representatives for Wellington Country District a year later. He became a little later on chairman of the Courts of Session for Wellington province and was appointed presiding judge for Hawke's Bay, Wairarapa and Wanganui in 1857. After that he became District Court Judge, having various judicial districts assigned to him in the North and South Islands at various times until his retirement in 1906. In his later years he became an ardent apostle of, and lecturer upon, temperance, in which he was ably seconded by his wife.