TEE LATE MR. ISAAC NEWTON WATT,

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7168, 11 September 1886, Page 2

TEE LATE MR. ISAAC NEWTON WATT,

Our telegrams from Dunodin announce tho death of an old Taranaki settler — Mr. Isaac Nowton Watt — who has succumbed evidently to a very painful disease to which he has been lonj a sufferer. Mr. Isaac Newton Watt arrived at NewPlymouth on December 23rd, 1843, in tho barque Himalaya, from London, and wag in business here for many years a? merchant. When tho new constitution was granted to New Zealand in 1853 Mr. Watt was chosen as the Speaker to tho first Provincial Council of Taranaki, and retained that position till the end of 1856, when he joined the Provincial Executive as Provincial Secretary under tho Cutfiold Superintendency. Ue retained this office till 1859, when ho retired from politics. In this year tho first Volunteer corps was formed, whon Mr. Watt was elected as its captain. He went on several expeditions with his company during the war of 186061, aud after the truco was made in the latter year he accepted the appointment of Resident Magistrate at the Bluff, where ho was for many years. He was afterwards made Resident Magistrate at Dunodin till about three years since, when he retired on a pension. He was a married man and had four children — two boys and two girls.