OBITUARY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21627, 23 April 1932, Page 11

OBITUARY

MRS EUPHEMIA HARTLEY There passed away on Tuesday night last an early link in the history of Otago in the person of Mrs Euphemia Hartley of this city. Mrs Hartley was of sturdy Scottish stock and was bom in Kinglaesie, Fifeshire, in 1840, so that she had reached her ninety-second year. As a young woman she came out with Her parents, seeking their fortune in a new land in which they arrived in 1861, in the Velore. In 1864 she was married t(j- Mr John Hartley, who had settled in the Ravensbourne district, having

arrived from Yorkshire in 1855, after some seafaring experience. Mr and Mrs Hartley worked together bravely, enduring' all the hardships of those early days, and bringing up a large family. Mr Hartley identified himself with the nuhlic life of the district, serving on the West Harbour Road and 'the St. Leonards, and the West Harbour School Committees. They subsequently moved up to Dunedin, and later the family resided for six years in England, but returned to this city, settling in Howe street in 1891. Mr Hartley passed away in 1900, and now Mrs Hartley has followed him after a long life full of selfsacrificing labour. She was of a modest and lovable disposition, and was respected by all who knew her. She enjoyed splendid health for most ' of her life, but of late years began to fail, and since January of this year was practically confined to bed. The surviving members of the family are four daughters and one son. ' Two of the daughters are married and resident in the United States of America.

MR H. H. SCOTT Many acquainted with the early history of the Tokomariro district will learn with regret of the death at New Plymouth on April 20 of Mr Henry Humphrey Scott, a pioneer of Table Hill. Born in 1847 near Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland, Mr Scott’s early life was spent on his father’s farm. He became an expert horseman, and was a regular follower of the hounds in “the neighbourhood. Emigrating to New Zea- 1 land in the early seventies, Mr Scott experienced all the vicissitudes of early colonial life. For a time he was engaged as a wagoner to the gold diggings, and later on canal construction work on the Taieri under the Provincial Government. Eventually he took up a block of land in its virgin state at Table Hill. This he farmed for 28 years, and then removed with his, family to Milton. Mr Scott again undertook contract constructional work, this time for the Railway Department in the Gatlins district and also under the Bruce County Council. Coming in his early years under the influence of the religious revival in Ireland in 1859, Mr Scott remained to the last a member and faithful supporter of the Evangelical Church of England. He was also a member of the Orange Lodge and the Good Templar Lodge. In 1883 Mr Scott was married to Miss M. A. Campbell, of Lime Springs, Milburn, who predeceased ,him 25 years ago. His three sons—Messrs William, George and Henry Scott —after gaining honourable positions in their respective professions, all made the supreme sacrifice during the Great War. Mr Scott is survived by his four daughters—Mesdames Stephens, Bell and Quigley (New Plymouth) and J. A. Roy (Clinton). VETERAN MASTER MARINER (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, April 22. ■ The death occurred on Thursday of Captain Frederick Melhuish Dicker, a veteran master mariner, at the age of 84 years. A son of Dr W. J. Dicker, Plymouth, England, Captain Dicker was born on April 16, 1848, and went to sea in 1962 as a boy in the small barque Witch of the Wave, of 253 tons, in which he served for two years. After a voyage as an ordinary seaman in the Spirit of the Day he joined-the Ida Zeigler, of 860 tons, in which he made a voyage from London to Auckland on June 11, 1868. He gained his second mate’s certificate in London and in that capacity rejoined the Ida Zeigler for another voyage to New Zealand. Duping the next five years lie served as second mate in the ships Mary Shepherd, Percy, Lord Macaulay and Electra, making two voyages from London to Wellington in the lastnamed ship. He then decided to stay in New Zealand, and on November 26, 1873, obtained a certificate .as master of a Home trade passenger ship. Captaiu Dicker served for several years as master of the small steamer Kiwi in the coastal trade between Wellington and Napier, and after her loss he took charge of the once well-known steamer Go Ahead, in which lie sailed for several years. At other times during the eighties and nineties Captain Dicker served as mate in the steamers Beautiful Star (one of the first ships in the Union Company’s fleet), the Southern Cross, Mahiuapua, Huia, Stormbird, Waihi and Kennedy. For some years past Captain Dicker had been engaged as a tally clerk for the Shaw, Savill Company. In spite of his great age ho kept remarkably good health and full possession of all his faculties. On March 24, however, he had the misfortune to be knocked down by a motor car, and from the shock of this accident he did not recover. Captain Dicker leaves a widow - ,- two sons and a daughter.