Obituary.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3471, 27 July 1899, Page 1

Obituary.

Mr Robert Rutherford, late of Mount Nessing station, Albury, died at Christchurch on Friday last, and was buried at Lin wood ou Sunday. In an obituary notice the Lyttelton Times says : —By his death Canterbury loses another of the fast-diminishing band of its hardy early settlers. The late Mr R. Rutherford came over from Adelaide with his father and family in the early days of the back country settlement of the province. He was educated at Christ’s College, and, after passing through a business training in the office of Miles and Co., joined his brother, Mr J. S, Rutherford, at Opawa station, Albury, which the latter still holds. Subsequently, in partnership with his youngest brother, Mr E. S. Rutherford, he took up the adjoining run, known as Mount Nessing, and worked that for some twenty-four years, only leaving it five years ago. The late Mr R. Rutherford was well known in the sporting world. Mr Rutherford, who was of an open and generous disposition, had suffered greatly in health for the past three years, and, his strength gradually|diminishing, he died on Friday. Ho leaves a wife and family of six, three of whom are grown up, to mourn their loss,