Obituary.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5273, 1 June 1895, Page 7

Obituary.

Mr John Davis Hean, who died at Addington, in his Bixty-first year, on Wednesday laßt, was an old Victorian digger, who had fought at the Eureka Stockade. He came to Geelong from England in the ship Araminta in 1852, and quitted the vessel with the captain's consent to try his fortune at Ballarat, where he took an active part in the rising under Peter Lalor. After nine years' gold;digging in Australia, he came to New Zealand, and was in the first rush to the Dunstan. After spending four years on the Otago goldfields he tramped to Cbristchurch, and then over the ranges to the West Coaßt oven before the surveyors' track was made. He worked one of the firßt beach claims on the Coast. In 1866 he paid a visit to England. He returned to Canterbury in 1868, and settled at Kaiapoi, where he lived for twenty years. He worked on the railway for nine years. He retired in the days of the retrenchment, and about seven years ago came to Chrißtchurch. For the laßt twenty years of his life he was a staunch advocate of temperance, and was a member of the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance. The members of the Order will attend his funeral, which is to leave hia late residence at Addington to-morrow afternoon for the Linwood Cemetery.