OBITUARY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3777, 27 June 1899, Page 5

OBITUARY.

MR ARTHUR SCOULLAR. At an early hour yesterday morning Mr Arthur Scoullar, a well known citizen of Wellington, died at his residence, Upper Willis street. Though the deceased gentleman had been in failing health for the last year, his demise was somewhat unexpected, in fact, he was down to business a week ago. Mr Scoullar was a member of the firm of Scoullar and Chisholm, of Wellington and Dunedin. He was really the original founder of the firm, the'first title of which was North and Scoullar. Though lie took no active part in public affairs during his thirteen years’ residence in this city. Mr Scoullar was prominently identified with municipal government in Dunedin, where lie was a City Councillor for some time, and also occupied the Mayoral chair. Mr Scoullar, who was in his seventieth year, was a native of Stewarton, Ayrshire, and he landed in the colonies, at Melbourne, fifty-two years ago. He was an expresident of the Wellington Bowling Club, and his death will bo generally regretted by its members. Mr Scoullar leaves a family of two sons and five daughters. Yesterday afternoon the employees of the Dunedin branch of the firm telegraphed that they desired a memorial wreath to be supplied on their behalf, as a mark of the esteem in which Mr Scoullar was held by them, and the regret they felt at his death. MR Gk C. STEVENSON. Mr G. C. Stevenson, a well-known architect of this city, died at the Wellington Hospital yesterday morning, as the result of a complication of. diseases. The deceased was a. native of Glasgow. Some years ago he was employed - in the Public Works Department, but left to go to New South Wales. Mr Stevenson, however, returned to practise his profession in Wellington. Amongst his recent successes was the winning of the design competition for the new Opera House at Wanganui, the supervision of the erection of which was also entrusted to him. The deceased leaves a widow and two children. MR JOHN HARDING. PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, Monday. Mr John Harding, well-known as a teetotal advocate, died yesterday, at his residence, Mount Vernon, Waipukurau, aged 80. [The late Mr Harding, who was born at Redbridge, near Southampton, England, in 1819; arrived in Port Nicholson fifty-seven years ago. After carrying on the business of an ironmonger in Wellington for about fourteen years, he removed to the Ahuriri district, Hawke's Bay, then just being opened up for settlement. Mount Vernon was the name which he gave to his place, and it was his home for nearly forty-five years. All the eleven surviving members of his family are married and have families. His wife pre-deceased him by thirteen years. Mr Harding was a stern total abstainer. He claimed to have more total abstinence societies in New Zealand than any other person, and he was instrumental in founding the New Zealand Alliance for the suppression of the liquor traffic.]