OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6308, 4 August 1888, Page 4

OBITUARY.

— . + ■ [Feb Pass's Association.] ATTOKLAND, August 3. J. Barr Brown, a well-kuown resident of Waiuku, died somewhat suddenly to-day. WELLINGTON, August 3. Mt William Beetham, afl old settler, died to-day, aged 79. He leaves a large grown-up family, one of whom, Mr George Beetham, is the member for Masterton. As an artist the late Mr Beetham had made his mark in the Colony. [The deceased gentleman was the father of our Eesident Magistrate, Mi* Richmond Beetham, ahd despite his advanced age was a man of great bodily ahd mental vigour. He had been in New Zealand many yeats, and with hiß son was ond of the pioneers in the WairsraJtia' district, where they are large landholders. The 1 artistic talent so excellently developed ih Mr Bichmond Beetham WAi3 inherited, fhe elder gentleman being an artist of no mean powers, and ah acknowledged critic 1 and authority in the* Welliiigton Art Sooiety* of which he was a leading member.]