OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13812, 25 January 1909, Page 6

OBITUARY.

Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Jan. 23. Mr C. E. Nelson, formerly licensee of the Geyser Hotel, Rotorua, died today. He was one of the best Maori scholars in the Dominion. NAPIER, Jan. 24. The death occurred to-day at Poraite, near Napier, of Captain Kenrick James Hill, aged .79 years. Deceased, who was a well-known sheep farmer, served in the Crimean and New Zealand wars.

MR JOHN DEAN. One of the old identities of South Canterbury,, who Occupied a place of honour in the leading car in the jubilee procession on the 14th inst., as one of the oldest, Mr John Dean, died at Geraidine on Thursday, just a week after the celebration. It was observed when .he was in'Timaru that he looked very aged and frail. The deceased arrived at Lyttelton in 1851 and came to Timaru 'hi 1852, under engagement to Mr G. joining his brother Mr Joseph Dean,' who came down in 1851. After working on the Levels for four or five years the brothers went sheen farming on itheir own account in North Canterbury for some years, and then returning to South Canterbury they settled John at Geraidine, Joseph at Woodbury. The deceased was a quiet unassuming man, well thought of by all who knew him. He leaves a widow, five sons and two daughters.