DEATH OF ARCHDEACON BUTT.
• [by telegraph—press association.] Blenheim, Tuesday. Archdeacon Butt died last night, at the age of 70 years. He came to the Bay of Islands as one of Bishop Selwyn'slaymUsioners early in the forties, his medical training being of great service to the Maoris and Europeans. Be was ordained, and settled in Nelson in 1843, and came to Wairau in 1857. He leaves two sons (one being Assistant Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, at Auckland) and two daughters (all married) and a widow, who ist he daughter of the Rev. Richard Davis, a very early missionary, The Archdeacon died of heart disease*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7827, 22 December 1886, Page 5
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