A COLONIAL CAREER.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12868, 2 January 1906, Page 5

A COLONIAL CAREER.

i;;xi:R T« bjwjt CLEBK. JTbe L:rf<-ry *.if tie late Mr FitzGibboo, cfeijinaa *,f tire SStlbouroe Metropolitan . Heard k.j Works, "who di&d receatH, jwo- , vaded atelier iard.-ajoe of tic aps 'dwaf «.J swi'h: wKciaial life. Mr Fit*- . Gibbon'; w~* burn, in Cork, Ireland, but : lie was' S yeaj's <of age when big p&f starved t'» ijptedoo, whiesc ih& bqy grew op jo the ■ of a. cniltii®d eaPc£e t. ; of bis fal&cr's fiibufs. "1 never went to *e3ac«al, r ' Mr FiUisibboa -said, m an, inHa Arffns" m 1903. 3Sy tducataor, <Atained *principsShr iny fetSeri! cui.c •> f fnendß, and •paiticoM . in 3 »qr gwii»wcr, ■ Mr; fowls fttiC *> i sod <nnothc.?' 'of- big godsons, Mir Lou» siiadwell, T.f'K <;i the Vioe-Chaaoel-lor r»f England.' Tbese friends guided ms j*adsng. As ,n. young man, Mr Fit»Oibosa began Sior a. professional cawer, ajjd tiKf.'tiyed in a committee ic-i "if i's friends proponed to 8" I« -Mealxmi-co u> toy thnr fortune mt ■ the g<j2d£c;ds, iir.<3 Mr FiteGibbwn, «*- to <ws»ade 'Jm, ended! ■j . joaacg .in i J.cir ventnne. There * many oocjwians in i iu; s lax- ca which his will Tgrs» i ifaos moaned w;r;l;-.i;y to its originaJ l pnr,l*3se._ That be wa>; swayed away on ?»»■ ociwiotj A it.;- feet for the citr of .-nn? ;«:umaicipa| life ia TicK-. .nired' in Victoria ia St-jn«ao«r, 28L£ V s;n] at-.-ontse went to fla diggings at Forc-jj.risi. "I wr.aM ant/' he said h:n»cD", " jni«jed that csperiC | at *i-- tir ■""■ rid*-, gJorio-QK freedom <if ..tfe.® li:e ajjpea.ed !«'. w. and it in one of my mc*t pleasant itv.;'k«aoa«. Oise day I cwrkcd cut a cJi-jji:. .xd' la'ii <:i stiat abaali " 10ft., when my >.w.;© called 'SpeDJtftf I :cj?iied^" Terh;. j.* n'-i under the next staoke '- «»•« on top. Xofc two tatinutes laltt lie ■ -id *Lot»k hei'c,' frlc&p t3iii«lr sfnd<3©d with gold;' •ai»d,-fTcm balf a Cp2> I,? sect ap, I mdMi '562." ri 't-hato<se, sided by Mr own! j.^remiilisg^cner^v. ';.:*iaghfc him by » , J j'#®? l ® ,r» » jut;ii-.Jdy : Bssociated—tbe tmirn 93 . Jrr «f M«36r»ttrae. He icame to MelbtJUjTur » niionih or two too soon, to meet' a;-4;i»'ti«r who- wa« aboat! ■ .oii-ai,--jaiang. *es«*l Diaffldlined to »- main lie Fiu • a positiiair <4 1 : -x. \)zpdto of the Legislative Ccttcci), ;-)t time. oaustSafing tbe. vi colony. It -was I >.«#■-*■ t.. -«nd in' addition to ■j the new Victorian <■>. a Monica.;ca«are thai occupied' y ajjgt«it for ~ Mr Fitas- ; Giobrii's native •.:■•.! .*'.y 4ed ; :to idntw' ftxjm sbc docanjeaii 1 ', him a fund of ' information and ir*>jX3ident opinion. sequently, ia 1854. i.< foaind no difficulty ' in gaining an apps nnder the oor- . poiatioa of Jfelbi a* cleric of comt mitttes, his beapg. •■*l* taldng «f ! tniutiifs and 'Jjt!""' ff by-law*, lie town clerk vl 'Xc day (Mr Wailiam Kerr, the foinvdcr «f "The Argus"Ji * jceaggoed, "while "t-rs--' were :|s > p»l jMtt for \hc ->R «f Carlton (fSmftti IrfardJ from ihe rc-; ■ i tie cp&i'. .SSr-ViS*-:i'Gibbon ofl'eaed' hi- nmow.' Hie , i (Mr J. T. Smith) '2;;.' d already appamted' s»" , ; oifipec iMr vtflriesi a* ««*% towpr dd! t ajSd 'bad 'picc w %•<!rmj i« weenrfcI tbe tofrn tkdt ' I :l*at city l<ir ;• • . tl»'3uik« for a cay. Ts»es* *»«■ chaos in ; '"tXe' owpifiialkn.,' ' SSj - was m- - taral' jet,«fipojr£ migiiV I tate. 'and after* with Uto * Governor, he w.-ss Ipw* *-l«rk of - - In .jtoiC, 3856. be ncas lor--1 jasdlyv-appfiinted Jfswjj i _a_ ptj»itwm which he filled.