OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15445, 7 September 1914, Page 11

OBITUARY.

W. MAKEPEACE HO^VE. The death occurred yesterday of an old and respected resident of liiuaru. -W ;■ William Makepeace Howe. Mr liowo was boru ju tlie city of Coventry in 1810, and admitted to the freedom of the city an 1861. He sreved au .apprenticeship of seven years to watch-finishing, and "was admitted a member of the British. Horological Institute, London, in ISiO. He let*; London for New Zealand in 1576, in the ship Dun Briton for Wellington, and arrived at Tiiuaru a few days after landing. He commenced business as a watchmaker here, hut after seme years took up a farm, remaining in this neighbourhood for thirty years- Mr Howe was a Freemason and affiliated with St. Johns in 1876. He was placed on the Commission of the Pence in 1596, and sat in connection with, some noted cases—the Waiwera murder case and others. Mr Ho wo was a leading member of the Orange Institution. for a number of years anda, cfiarter member of the Druids Lodge, Tiniaru. He was also an active member of the "Wes'eyan Methodist Church, and frequently took service as lay preacher.