OBITUARY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16208, 4 December 1926, Page 3

OBITUARY

MR.hMARK DAVIS (Hpecial t-o tho Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. •Mr Mark Davis, who died toMay aged 66 years, was tho founder of the. firm of Grier, Son, and Davis, wine, and spirit merchants, Christchurch. Ho had varied public and sporting interests, including membership of the Canterbury Jockey Club, the Metropolitan Trotting Club, Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, Canterbury Bowling Club, Federal Club, ami tho Merchants’ and Licensed Vic fuellers’ Associations. He had been in poor health for the last nine months. The. late Mr Davis was born in London and arrived with his parents in New Zealand when he was about six years of age. Tie received his education at Nelson College and Cook’s College, Christchurch, later assisting his father in tho latter’s business as a general merchant. Mr Davis founded the firm of Grier, Son, and Davis about 25 years ago, and came to be well known in Christchurch and practically all parts of New Zealand. He was a quiet and unassuming man. and merited the high respect of his friends. He did not marry. Three brothers and four sisters survive him, Messrs Moss Davis (London), Joseph and Louis (Christchurch), and Mrs 11. J. Rnpliel (Christchurch)), Mrs Bessie Sehwarlz (Ran Francisco). and Misses Teenie and Miriam Davis (Christchurch). MRS. JOHN STUDIIOLME Mrs John Siiulhohue, widow of the late John Stiulhohne, of Merivale and Coldstream, whose death occurred in Paris on December 1, was one of the oldest- of Canterbury’s settlers. Mrs HtudhoJnie came to New Zealand in 1853 with her brother, the late Edward 1 Moorhouse, and her two sisters, the late Mrs W. B, Rhodes and Mrs T. H. VViglev, to join her brother, Me ft on Moorhouse, then Superintendent of Canterbury. The vessel they came in. a barque of a few hundred tons, took 157 days on the voyage, the supply of food and water having nearly run out before tho ship reached Lyttelton. GERMAN SCIENTIST Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received December 4, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, Dee. The death is reported of Carl Ebcrtli, the discoverer of the typhus bacillus. Tho recent outbreak of typhoid lever at Mastcpton claimed its first victim last night in Miss Winifred May Sporshott, 22, who died in the i.Tasterton hospital, after two weeks in isolation. The deceased's mother is also numbered among the other seven cases in tho hospital.