OBITUARY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1204, 29 March 1895, Page 26

OBITUARY.

MES A. PATEESON. Mrs Paterson, wife of Mrs Archibald i Paterson, of the Lake Hotel, Waihola, is dead. She arrived in Otago in the ship ; Elizabeth Fleming in 1867. ; H. B. ELLEEM. An old and respected pioneer, Mr H. B. Ellerm, of Mount Stewart, JRangitikei, passed away early on Friday morning. The deceased, who was 65 years of age, arrived in New Zealand in the ship Adelaide, in the month of March, 1840, when he settled in Wellington. He atterwards moved to the Hutt, but in .1875 went to Sanson, where he had resided ever since. HENEY HAYTEE. Melbourne, March 24. Mr H. H. Hayter, Government Statist, is dead. The cause of death was cancer on •! the vertebrae. . I [Henry Heylyn Hayter was born at | Eden Vale, Wiltshire, in October, 1821. He • emigrated to Victoria in 1852, and in 1857 I joined the department of the Eegistrar- | General, where, he was for many years at ; the head of the statistical branch. In that ! position he brought the official statistics of Victoria to a high state of perfection. Mr Hayter's labours on a Eoyal Commission appointed to enquire into the working of the Public Service of Victoria, together with domestic losses, affected his health, and in 1872 he obtained leave of absence for a short period, which he spent in New Zealand, where he investigated the working of the Eegistrar-General's department. In May, 1874, the statistical branch; over which Mr Hayter had so long presided, was erected into a separate department, he being placed at its head under the title of Government Statist. He was also a member of and contributed several papers to a Social Science Congress which was held in Melbourne during the exhibition of 1880-81. Soon after Mr Hayter assumed the office of Government Statist, he originated the »vork " The Victorian Year Book," by which he is* best known-. Amongst the works of which he was authoi was "Notes of a Tour in New Zealand." His "Nosological Index" is used in the statistical departments of all the Australasian colonies. He was created a C.M.G. in May, 1882, and an officer of the French Order of Public Instruction in July of the same year.]

JOHN BELL. London, March 22. The death is announced of John Bell, sculptor. [The deceased was born in Norfolk in 1811, and first exhibited in the Royal Academy, in 1832, a religious group, which was followed by-" Psyche-feeding a Swan," and other poetic works. He executed the Wellington monument at Guildhall, with colossal figures of peace and war, and he was one of the sculptors employed in the completion of the Prince Consort memorial in Hyde Park.] ADAM JADEAU. New York, March 22. Adam Jadeau, who was General Grant's secretary during his tour of the world, is dead. LORD C. E.PAGET. London, March 24. " The death is announced of Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, setat 84. [Lord Clarence Edward Paget, son of the first Marquis of Anglesey, entered the navy at an early age, and saw some active service on the Baltic during the Crimean War. He was Secretary to the Admiralty in Lord Palmerston's second Administration, and afterwards took command of the Mediterranean squadron.] W. P. MOAT. Auckland, March 25. Mr W. P. Moat, formerly M.H.R. for Rodney, and a member of various bodies, has died at the age of 68. The cause of death was heart affection. [Mr Moat was member for Rodney for many years, and was highly esteemed. He was for a long period a member of the Auckland Education Board. Mr Moat was an enthusiastic Freemason.] W. T. WIXCEY. Mr William T. Wixcey, eldest son of Mr T. H. Wixcey, of Wanganui, died at Napie on Friday last. The deceased, who was only 25 years of age, was a Wanganui boy, and an enthusiast in all manly sport. His death will be widely regretted. H. HAIN. Mr Henry Hain, an old resident of Capleston, died at the Reefton Hospital last Saturday afternoon from consumption. Deceased leaves a family at Lyell. G. T. WILLIAMS. Mr George T. Williams, nephew of Mr Thomas Thompson, ex M.H.R., died last week at the latter's residence at Auckland. Mr Williams came to New Zealand not long ago for the benefit of his-health; but the lung trouble from which he suffered, the result of influenza, had secured too great a hold fupon his system* and his ill ness resultedjfatally. .