OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CIII, Issue 15805, 11 November 1915, Page 9

OBITUARY.

Mil HARRY McCCLLY. Mr llan-v MeCuily, :i well known Temuka farmer and stock dealer, died at Titnavu vostmlav in his 57th year. The iato Mr McCu'llv was bom roar Belfast, Ireland, and come to -New Zealand in ISSI, landing in Lyttclton. Ho immediately entered into vartnersl.ip with his brother WilVinm, at "Ramcliii'. After farming there for three years the two brothers took up land iu a locality now known as Ciandeboyc—a i name t'nat wfis given by tho MeCnlly : Rros. in honour of a. town iu Ireland, j which one of them at least had had i reason to remember with gratitude. s:nco it was thero that tho woman woo I became his wife was born. After few | years the partnership was dissolved, j and tho late Mr McCully acquired the j Nowlands estate of GOO or 700 acres. I After working t'nis estate for four or five years, ho took up a Maori reserve of G<"K) acres adjoining, a property lie continued to own until the time of his death. About nine years .ago ho a'so purchased Leys Form —known nt tho | time as tho Model Farm —from the late Colonel Ilayhurst and lie resided on this farm from tho time it became his property. About six montlis ago he made another bis; land deal, acquiring the famous Green Hayes estate, about ! 2i>o acres of first-class 'and with ono of i the fir.cst homesteads in South Canterbury. Tho time when he was to enter ir.to possession of this property lias not yet arrived. This wt?s one of the largest deals in land that has taken place in Temuka district for a Ion" time. Over twenty years tho late Mr MoCully started stock dealing, and until three, weeks lief ore i.is death there was no more familiar figuro at the local stock sales. He was )>articularly well fitted to achieve success in this branch of his activities, and he was admitted on all sides to !>o the shrewdest operator tjno South Cauterbnry stock niarkot has known. He was noted for his successful deals . anil iiis judgment never seemed io ', err. Jlo was equally noted for his buiness integrity. No unfair advantage was ever sought by him. and many stories are told in proof of his fairness and justice. Ho was a man of tremendous energy, and often astonished his friends by tho amount of work lie could got through. About, ten years ago lie married the daughter of Mr Geo. Smart of Waitohi, and | his wife and two eluidren survive him. |Ho had been suffering for tho last | two or three years from diabetes, and recently caught a bad cold in the hea/1 which led to such serious troublo operation had to be performed on September '2l. Ho appeared to ! never recover completely, but he j again took ill. and thouch taken to Timaru and the be-t medical s fc."ll obtained his ca=o proved hopeless. He leaves four brother*. Samuel. llucli. William and the T?ev. Rolvrt Me> | Cully, and five sisters—Mrs Bowl nnd i Mrs Patron Mr-- Miliiken (MatanraV Mrs Gudox (Mil ford"*, and Miss McCiillv.