OBITUARY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6140, 29 March 1898, Page 4

OBITUARY.

•United Press Association— By Electric Tetegxavh— Copyright. Beceived Mnreh 29, 12.50 a.m. LONDON, March 28. The late Charles Stuart Parnell's mother died at Avondale through being severely burnt, the result of an accident. [Pku Press Association.! WELLINGTON, March 28. Mr Murrell, manager for Messrs Huddart, Parker and Company, has received . advice of the death at Melbourne of Mr Ernest J. Parker, managing director of the firm. Mr Parker had been ailing for some months, but was able to attend to business, and his death was sudden. GEORGE PATEESON. One of the oldest identities of the colony, Mr George Paterson, of Kaiapoi, passed away on Sunday, at 9.15 p.m. Mr Paterson was educated at Heriot's Hospital, . Edinburgh, his father and himself being freemen of that city. Mr Paterson was horn during the reign of George 111., and remembered well the visit of William IV. to Edinburgh, and also the alarms that caused the yeomanry of the surrounding districts to be called out to meet an ex-? pected French invasion. In 1838 Mr Paterson sailed for Melbourne, and spent some months there. He afterwards acted as manager for Messrs Learmouth Brothers, on their Ercildoun Estate, and met with many curious adventures among bushtangers and blacks. He figures as a character in Kiugsley's " Geoffrey Hamlyn." After being on the goldfields at liallarat and Geelong, Mr Paterson came to Dunedin, where he bought land for an Australian syndicate. Later on he came to Canterbury, and for a few months had charge of the Hon W. Eobinson's estate at Cheviot, .and afterwards, with Mr Joseph. Pearson, of Burnt Hill, he explored, that part of North Canterbury known as Stair- ■ case -Gully. In the early sixties he was manager for the late Captain Millton on the View Hill^station, and left his employment to take up a small run at Otarama, known as Paterson's Creek. Finally he settled at Kaiapoi Island, but eventually retired from farming, and died as stated at Kaiapoi.