DEATH OF MR E. .MASON.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12391, 28 June 1902, Page 8

DEATH OF MR E. .MASON.

(Fnoit 'Oun Owx Coiuiespoxdext.) WELLINGTON, June 27. Mr Edwin Mason, registrar of friendly ' societies, who died Fuddan'.y on his way • home last night, was born in Cornwall, and ! finished his education at Christ' College;' Cambridge, where he took his B.A. degree : in 1860. For some, years before he came to i New Zealand he was a clergyman of the ! Church of England, and wns stationed in : one of the suburbs of Manchester. Resign- j ing his living with the object of improving ; his health in ihc southern hemisphere, he . came out to Australia about 25 years ago i In 1881 ho received an appointment in the i New Zealand RoKistrar-ncnoral's Depart- ! mont, which he 1-cld until 1885, when he was' selected to become registrar and actuary ; of friendly societies. He was an excellent ; mathematician, and his knowledge of figures proved invaluable to him in discharging bi-s ■ actuarial duties. For soma months past. Mr j Mason's health bad not been :\t all satis- j factory, and on two occasions since the bo- | Sinning of the present year he had been j confined to his home, Buttering from heart ] and bronchial troubles. Yesterday morning j ho- spent some time at hie ollic? in the Go- ' vernment Buildings, and until a few minute , ! before he died he was apiurently feeling no wor-o than for somo wcc&s. He leaves a , widow and a family (if two dsujrhlcre and ' thrco sons. One of bis sons is studying, medicine in Edinburgh; another reside; in j Sydney, and the other lives in Wellington. Tho late Mr Mason was in his -sixty-fifth year.