DEATH OF MR. JOHN MARTYN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9179, 20 April 1893, Page 5

DEATH OF MR. JOHN MARTYN.

[by TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Hamilton, Wednesday. The many friends of Mr. John Martyn, of Hautapu, will be grieved to hear of that gentleman's death. Mr. Martyn, who is well-known in the Waikato, having arrived here in 1874, passod away peacefully at his residence, Torr View, at eleven o'clock this forenoon, at the ripo old age of 81. He had been ailing for a long time. Mr. Martyn came ouc to this colony in 1857 with his family, and settled at Ramarama, bub was driven from there when the Maori war broke out in 1863, the well-known " Martyn'a Redoubt" being situated on his property. After the war Mr. Martyn again returned to his property at Ramnrama, and stayed there until 1874, when he removed to the Waikato, where his sons had already been settled for some years. In the early days he acted as Commissioner of Emigration under the Provincial Government. Mr. Martyn, with Mr. Joseph May, visited England, and was the means of sending out to New Zealand a number of valuable colonists. Mr. Martyn leaves a wife and two married daughters to mourn their loss Mrs. Hume, wife of Mr. James Hume, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Hamilton, and Mrs. Wilson, wife of Mr. J. L. Wilson, one of the proprietors of the New Zealand Herald. The deceased gentleman's two sons, John and William, died some time ago. Mr. Martyn, as one of our old pioneer settlers, the ranks of which are rapidly thinning, will bo remembered and his death regretted by a .vide circle of friends.