DEATH OF MR T. V. FITZPATRICK, OF NGARUWAKIA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1778, 27 November 1883, Page 2

DEATH OF MR T. Y. FITZPATRICK, OF NGARUWAKIA.

Mil T. Y. FiTZPATincK, one of W.xikato's pioneer .settlers, passed calmly away on Sunday morning last. The .sad event was not unlookod for by his friends as fol'f 01 ' home months past he had been .suffenng fiom a complication of diseases. The immediate cause of death was bioncliitis, and although lie 1 allied a few weeks ago, and lust began to get iibout a little, a lelapse set m, bi ought about bv mc. mtiously tiying 1 to do too much. A fie->h cold settled upon h^ lungs, tcunmalmg fat.\lly on Sunday niorning about half-past nine o'clock. T Thc> late Mr T. Y. Fit/.patrick amiß to New Zealand in the year 1802, and soon after landing accepted a. po-,t m the Coniiniss.iuat Department at Wanganui, wheie ho the hr.st year or two of his colonial life. About the year 1805, he came to W.iikato and joined Mr E. Fit/.patrick, then in business at Ngai uawaliia, and from that date until hi.s lccent llluess he has been intimately associated with tin's part of the distiict, Liking an active and leading position in all local inattei.s. Mi Fit/.patiick w.is of a happy, genial disposition, ,iud the remenibiance of these qualities will koep hi-, moiuray gieen m Llie minds of those who met him and wcie associ.ited with him in the eaily days of the settlement of the di-tuct. A*< will be scon by the obituniy notice, the funeialhas been anangod to take ])laci' at 11 00 a.m to-day, to en.ilile fiieiuK hum a dist.tnco to .i\ail themsehos of llio i ailway, and although the nntico is .shoit, a veiy laige gatheiing of his fiiend* is anticipated.