OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12618, 23 March 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

OBITUARY

-—« —* ■.. ; ...' > News has b&ea received iri Dungdjin of the death of Mr Edwird Chalmers so'nof, the late Mr John Cargiil and of Sahth, hie first wife, eldest daughter of the late jjj- John Jones. ■ The. deceased wend to British. Columbia 15 years, ago, meeting, with varied success in several pursuits. . Latterly he had gone into tlie lumber - business, and hail the prospect of doing very well in it, Jii pp£ n&tion] with" thi.s) gone. to. Ottawa to interview tho_ Government. .AVhile, there hi hail an- attack of pneumonia, .whioh proved fatal; carrying , him rjff in a,'few, days, lie died on-January 30, and was fcuriedafc Ottawa: Ho was 40. years of age, and was unmarried. " The news of the death of the IJev. 'j. Skinner., of."Western, h'js been,' received with much regret here, and is bound to, e'xcjtesimilar' feejings [.wherever .he was' known. He had latterly been suffering;, a niahdy"from which there was little prospect of recovery,'and lie passed'away on Tuesday evening about midnight. H,e_ was boniin Rothiomay, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and', in spite of'adverse circumstances, eclucajed himself; soon attaining distinction, particularly in classics, and taking his II.A. .degree witli honours at the, Aberdeen DniversTtyi Jfor some time he, filled the position'of Assistant Inspector of Schools for Scotland tij, the celebrated. Dn Cu'raiijg, father of/the . Rev. J. Cumiiig,. of Waikiwi, near layercargiil. He came under "the influence'of the great' religious revival of l 1861-2, and, ' abandoning the prospects of advancement, in the scholastic profession,' lie'' entered the ministry and mine out to, New Zealand in 187*. deceiving simultaneous calls to Waitahuna and North Taieri, he chose the former' taeguso. it was the, moce needy . (lislrietj though it was also'the pooreetj and laboured among the miners 'in that'parieli with, much acceptance and success, his chanty and sympathy making friends for him among all classes. The snmo success attended his ministrations at Flemington; in Canterbury, where he had a wide district of 18 stations to superintend. About nine months ago he accepted a call to the newlycreated. church extension, charge of WestpnTotara, and, in circumstances of peculiar difficulty, made- himself affectionately reby all his parishioners. More recently lie visited Wellington and Waitahuna, seek* ing health, but without success. He. married,, while £t Waitahuha, a daughter of Mr John Roid (of Messrs .John Reid and Sons, Dunedin), with whom and their three children much sympathy is felt. ' ' '''"•' A cable message has been received in WellingIpn notifying the'death in London of Mr John SHudlNJime, & wejl-knbwn South, Canterbury pioneer, lit Studholme came to New Zealand in 1851. Uβ .and his brother Michael were the second persons to journey overland from Christchurch to Dunedin, Mr Valpy haying preceded Jhein, In 1854, in company with Si Meh'iies and Captain Bellairs, he. sst out to explore the Southland district, which' had iecen.% been bjiugW from" the 'Natives by the Government. 4(ter i week's hard walking between the Mataura and the Oreti Rivers, the others decided to go no further,'ami Mr Staaholme waited on by himself as far as the Waiau. ■ The only Europeans in" Southland: ai this, time were, »n old sealer called Jack Tiger, who lived, at.the , Bluff, and Captains Stevens and Howell,' at Jacob's River. In 1854, the brothers took up the Wairaate run, and engaged is siwinilling operations. The deceased represented Timaru in the Canterbury Provincial Council and in , the House of Representatives. He twice re- ! preWnte<rKiiipoi and"lwice Glida'tone, and was offered a seat in the Fox Ministry. Eβ was a director in the New Zealand Shipping Company. He was married to a datigriter of. ■the ICoorbbuse, one ol'the euperinienI dents of Canterbury,'' .'" ' '"■'.. . Another, of Otigo'a old identities has been rather suddenly and unexpectedly ' taken from our midst in the person of Mr* Janet Cadzow, widow of the laie Robert Oadzow. Deceased, with her youngest daughter, was on a visit to her married daughter,' Mrs Boberts, residing at Gore, and whilst there took suddenlyiir and expired after a week's 1 illness. Mrs Cadzow, with her late fiusband, arrived in the colonies some forty years ago; and for a unmber of years they devoted their attentions "to' dairying pureuita .oh ; fb* Peninsula, at Aride.rsbn's Ilay with greet success.' Of late years Mra Cadzow h»d v living a retired life down.the North/East •■ , Valley, where she had a lot of friends ' I acquaintances. She was held in High "eateerfi by all who knew her.' Deceased leaves seven , daughters and one son to mourn their loss, the yoiingeat daughter being {he only 'tin- , ! married member of the family. ' ' •• I Mm William Pollock, who died a,t Jnvercargill on the 18th in ' ,her eighty-third' .year, was' a long tjmb resident in the oplony. having cojne from Home, in the. ship B.ornioa in 1848, :lahd: ing at Port Chalmers in December. Shortly after, she mirricd "William Pollock, who! had come to Otago in the Philip Idjng..' They settled near Riccarton, in the Taien, but in 1856 came to Invorcargill in the schooner Star. Pollock had bought 50 : acres', of ivhat is now th» Borouijhof Eaet'lnvercargill at 15s per acre. Ho also took up a run about Mataura, but soon sold out And returned to the Taieri, forming it Breadalbane till the diggings broke out, wKoji h« i went into butchering in Dunedin .on the site now occupied by Patrick's' butjoheryi Thereafter tlie family moved-to land, a^ Ofepopo, end the father went to the Nprfli Island, "Where ho died 23 yeja,rs ago/, For the past 18 years Mrs Pollock resjdeq mostly in Mosgiel, coming here three yeare ago, with her daughter (Mrs Gurrett). She was ' an intelligent woman, with good deecrip: tivo powers, and her narrations' of • early days and the people of Otago were most interesting. A native of Paisley, she came of a long-lived race—her father, a Waterloo man, living to 90. and her mother, to 95 years, both being \rell-lsnown Taierj settlers. ''•'.■'• • '. Another old identity has passed away in the person of Mr John Kedz'ie, Halfway Bush. Tlie deceased gentleman was born in Mussel- ■' burgh, near Edinburgh"," oii July 20, '1821. ' Be left the Old Country' in 1849 for Sydney, where he joined'the firm' of Griffith and Fanning, merchants.- After being there sqnie time he left for the l'uron diggings; from there he visited Bendigo and Ballarat, and in the year 1854 was married at Sydney to Hiss' Elizabeth Cossar. On Jfay 12,1856, he left in the Thomas and Henry, under Captain Thomson, for/New. Zcfthnd, the other passengers being the late Mrs Valpy and daughter (afterwards Mrs Bailie Pyke), and the late Mr Edward M'Luskey: He took up land at Halfway Bush, where,.he-re> sided until the day of his death (March , lS). The deceased was widely known and respected. He leaves a widow and a (family of five sobs and three daughters. Three sons and two (kugh?ters are married. There are 26 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. • A conspicuous figure in the WyndhanV dietriot was removed by death on Sunday, the 15th inst., in the person of Mr George ptibb Pyfc. The deceased gentleman had been in declininir healffifpr some time, 'am} was 78 • yeara oiF age/ The late Mr Fyfe - among Ofago's old identities. He arrived in ihe province Wore the discovery, of gold, and came in the phip Phpbe Duhbar in 1850. Hfe was employed with Captain Lee (offer whom Lee Stream was named) and with the senior'Mr and Mrs Shaiid,* of Green Tflsnd (the latter being shipmates "of his)! H« •took the first wool' from Taieri to Dim ; edin (Sn company with, the Tato Mr Alexander Smrth, afterward of Springfield, Taieri). He "subsequently went over to A.ustralia, where he remarned for -nine yeaja, returning to New"ZoaMd in 1860. He,"iii 1865, acquired the 'property known aa Drumoak (whioh comprised the farms now owned by Mr iTatnies Scott aind Messrs I/aidlaw Bros., VTyndliam" Valley), end' in 1867 settled upon it with stock. On January 31, 1874,' he married. Having stayed at Drum: oak for nine and a-hnlf years, he. sold it; and then bought' from "Mrs Crdmtje the fnrm now owned by Mr James' Allan and from Mr Jolui Mieani whit is now Mr W. Hornmn's farm. Eight ■ «md a-hnlf yeaTS later he disposed of these and settled down, retired, in WyntthamJ ■where he has lhred for the nast 19 years. . During his residenoe vn Wyndham Mr Fyte took a fnirly active part in public affairs, and was sesociat«d with a. Jiiimber of r/üblio bodias. General regret k kit throughpHt the distriot at His deniiso, as he wan honoured and esteemed by all who kuw iiim. "' ' " ■•' ■•'■■',' Augustus Olover,-a member of J. O. Williamson's "Sherlock Holmes" Company, dfed in the hospital'at Napier on .the llth.