AN INTERESTING CAREER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12551, 19 April 1904, Page 5

AN INTERESTING CAREER.

DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN

JOURNALIST.

i [BT TELEGRAPH.—OWN COBBESrOXDEKT.] DUKEDIKj Monday. " Mr. C. E. M. Hai-chton, leader-writer to the Dunedin Stat, died on Saturday. Mr. Haughton wafi bom in New South Wales in 1827, and was educated at Oxford, where he graduated US M.A., with the end in view of entering the Anglican Church. He was appointed.chaplain on board H.M.s. Queen, and served in that ship throughout the Crimean war, for which he obtained the medal. Subsequently Mr. Haughton was appointed chaplain and naval, instructor on H.M.s. Euryalus (Captain Tarleton), where he was specially selected as tutor in navigation and mathematics t* his late Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. His political career began in Otago Provincial Council, and subsequently he was Senior Whip of the Stafford Government, and was made Under-Secretary for Immigration and Mines under the FoxVogel Government, > his seat for Wakatipu being filled by the late Mr. Vincent Pyke. In 1876 Mr. Haughton retired from the service of the Government, and joined the staff of the Wellington Independent* and for the last 30 years he has been on the staff of the Dunedin Evening Star. He met with a severe accident in Princes-street about two years ago, which must have hastened his end. His only relative in the colony is Mr. Frederick Mallard, of Dunedin, formerly inspector of police. ■