OBITUARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3737, 11 May 1899, Page 7

OBITUARY.

I MRJ GEORGE ALLEN. An old colonist passed.' away: in , Wel.iliigton,. yesterday,’ morning in. the per- ; sdn.of Mr George Alien.,' ~The deceased, gdntleman, who had nttained -tho ripe bljd ; - age 'of • 84J- yearsj* died somewhat: suddenly. He; was apparently in good ''hbalth 'bh "the previous: evening; 'but complained of a pain at the heart parly in) the morning, - and passed away quietly} in the presence of jhis ;two .daughters',/ with whom'he had been--living,- shortly after five', o’clock. The" late Mr Allen (Who decupled • the ' Mayoral chair, of : tfts City \oi ’Wellington "froith-'-’&h v 't6" ! 2stli -May,- 1879) had ,an., andi interesting career, ■-Eew .men it”' more thaai' he. did; in .iHe.Teftrly. .dUys of civOisatiorid ■’ • 'Mf "Allotl ■ -born "in Heal', 4ri up to the principal industry of that ancient town —that of boatbuilding. In April; he left-England in a brig ofl 160 ton’s called-'the Emma, bound for rSbuth Australia. " The Emma , took - sik .fibrithfi tb)i®}hh 2t \ the ’Vodth "of' Spencers GldE "“Here Mr Allen spent, and then joineClwl for Home, as’ a carpenter. • The ship was wj-ecked in EncqjmteT and Mr Allen, with other s,- ! • tresteaed-/ after a night in the rigging. Returning to Kangaroo Island, Mr "Allen joined the ship Sarah and Eliz^e^g,whi9h; ; .^raB j toj sa,i}i ifqh .-Engla^^'ii^^f^jtiufej.jjiiojl at| Kangaroo Island, .apd, filling'up'with wooh fromoVait. Diemah’h/LancU KVThis vessel, ohoweyerjiiiivhsd ,«uroihptly ~>coh-_ demflTO,!- the soifldUo(v * shapes' - car-' Ppnter stayed for a short time at Hobart;" wdrk&g 11 8.t :rT %ade; %nd si e2ftiy ing by piecework abm<t ( 12s to 15& per -Jay. Securing a’Home ship there, he Twent on to -Sydney-, .wherej-aftcrr work4ng for a -.while ashore, ne considered hipiself rhentership '-of T -thb •‘Grbntesh-honiPWa.rd ;bqund,:.yia, Torres, Port, ;Essingnt'pn- and 1 tbdrEaUt.,.lhdies. i -^'-This 1 was; Ltoiwards - j;he;'ehd l : ( Qir-l^B,, y hnd„'thpugJi ( , Hie' heat was intense, the ’yciing'’ cat--1 pentor was in high-spirits, as every -’day brought him nearer to the Old Land "where he was isW^'ofV^nShh) welcome frbm his widowed one other of the same towp—one. who, ,was nijno'children, 'arid 1 Who, li ftftbtilekt‘iy'fifty ■ .years of mamptk-hfpK^afr4aid 1 to rest -in} the The iOtontes, however, struck upon an unknown ■ reck, -r and-> ;Wfasr>tub ragroundi oat the entrance, of > Port'nEssingtbnV' where for six months the .cr®s| v.ere. exiled, in 1 a; tropical ■ - iriar- . adding. blacks., . Th^ 1 mi,4dlp, of r , 1539, found the, shipwreckod.'crSW: ■ back; in' Sydney, and from thence" Sir Aden came on to this colony in the brig Adelaide. ‘R'eturning-to-South-Australia,-he- shipped for England in the Adelaide, and after an adventurous/ voyage reached' the Olft Country four and a half years after setting out;;T; Five; months after he married Miss Jane-Elizabeth Paul, 'who, as i Mrs ! Georgd-Allen,-' Iras >• afterwards so well known in.,Wellington. In 1841 the young couple arrived in Wellington in the 'Cathorihe-Stuart-Forbes, . and- Mr Allen fat. oncpoestahlished .him-, ■self as a- .hoatbuilder. In ‘ the qnarter- ■ century which followed he was able to : acquire a competence, ” and in 1866 •retired from /hUsinesksiandA bought -; a farm at Waiwetu, Lower Hutt. There he led a farmer’s lifo for the nexb eight years, when ho again came back to ; this-town,--whore- he-had-up-to-hia-death- • resided. ‘ Mr Allen devoted a great deal of his ; time to the public'Service A As'a' "councillor .local bodies he preVed niiilself'Tndeed a useful citizen,; .Rut, it, , as; .a; provincial councillor that, themosti valuable and enduring'* services. He was elected to represent the City fof Weled his fuD terjip, of; flvq’ ypafs•>: dur.Allen, .was-.oneK pf -■ , upon the poSition-jof.ithalQUeen/atiwhairf'.;; For years he was managing director of : tile Trust*. Loqn and Invgstip.ent. t .Company, a’pbsitibri' trhihh' I W I held, 1 indeed, until the day of his death. Flags were flown at .haifonastsAt .thei.Corpoxation ‘ Offices and, at a ,, niwh,gr.. of. MbKc and private* J ‘ 'proitiEbs N in Jtl ' / tne dity yesterday, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased.