OBITUARY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2320, 18 August 1898, Page 30

OBITUARY.

We regret to announce the death on Tuesday of Mr Charles Moore, wholesale saddler, of this city, an old resident, having arrived here in 1861. He was born in 1835 in Belgaum, in Bombay, India, where his father was head of the Commissariat department of the army of the East India Company. When only five years of age he went to Glasgow with his parents, and was educated there. He came out to Victoria in 1849 when comparatively young, being then only 13 years of age. Some time after his arrival he managed a business in Melbourne, and afterwards de cided to start business on his own account, but the gold excitement in Olago in 1861 attracted him to this colony, and he landed in Dunedin in that year. Be then started in bvisiness for himself, in which he continued till 1889, when he sold his business to the piesent company of Brace, Windle, Blyth, and Co. (Limited), which business he managed for New Zealand up to the time of his death. Mr Moore was well known in business circles, and was deservedly respected for his integrity and straightforwardness. H<3 never took a prominent part in public matters, although during his residence here ne has taken an active interest in the Presbyterian Church and Synod, having been a member of the latter for a number of years, and an elder of the church for oyor 34- years. Mr Moore was one of a family of 12, all of whom predeceased him, except the Rev. W. Kennedy Moore, D.D., of Portsmouth, England, and two sisters, one of whom is in Melbourne and the other in Glasgow. Ho leaves a widow and six children, the eldest of whom— Miss Moore— graduated at the Otago University, and is now in the mission field in China. His eldest son, Mr C. D. S. Moore, was in the business with him, and his second son, Mr F. Z. Moore, is in practice as a solicitor here. Mr Moore's death will be mourned by a large circle of friends.