Obituary.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXV, Issue 9792, 18 March 1908, Page 2

Obituary.

MR 11. 1!. Ui.WYKnlil). Wo have rc.civod information of the death <>f Mr 11. li. Crawlord. :il Hamil ton. after :i liimeritti illm.-s. Mr Crawford was licirn at "Coi-inc'lla." Western I'tirl. Virt.iria. in 1860. ami was a son of tlie late Captain .1.-ntti-o Ki"':d I Taw fold, who arrived in l.yttclton with his family in 1865. ami after" residing in ehristchun -li removed to 'l'iiiiani as lessee and lu-ina-cr of tlie Timaru liirliteriii'.' s"ivice. Howu .dueated. lirst at tlie Chrislclmr. h lliuli School: then at tlie Timaru public and -laminar school, and linally at the tlamaru District llieli School, which lie left in December. 1876. to enter, under articles, the oilier of the Hon. I. \\ . Jiislop. Alter servinu articles for i-ix wars, and undergoing examination lor iiarri.ster ami solicitor. In' was admitted hv Mr .Justice- Williams in 1862. Mr Crawford was managim; clerk for Messrs. Hi.dop and Crt-auli till 1386, when ho founde<! his practice in tamaru. In 1887 he established u business on Hie Ota-o goldiiolds. and worked Central Utano front Xaseby. where he and Mr William Kerr opened an ollico in partnership, under the stvle of Crawford and Kerr. Ho dispor-xd of his interest m that business ill 1889 to Mr Kerr, and retained the Oainaru but,inoss. Mr Crawford was an Oddfellow attached to the Alfred Lodge of which he was a l'ast Noble (iiand, and for seven roars bo served as a volunteer in the old'l Kaliery. lie aspired to publie ollioo. ami was a <andidate for mum. eipal honors. At the 1902 election lie also offered himself as member for the distil. I in the House of Kcpicsonl.-i lives, lint on neither occasion was lie successful. About three years ago Mr Crawford took into partnership in his business Mr lljoning. to whom bo sub.'iei(iienlly sold his interest. Mr Crawford was a capable linancier and, at different times, owned considerable property in Oamaru. A year or two ago lie purchased a big block of bush land in the North Island about 60 miles inland from Napier, and the, management of this has since engrossed most of his time. ' Recently deceased underwent a serious operation at Nurse Stronach's hospital, and though he pulled through, the relief thus gained was evidently merely temporary. To Mrs Crawford and her two sons "and two daughters the sympathy of their Oamaru friends is extended, their bereavement of a husband and a father at so early, an age being indeed sad.