OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VII, 18 August 1894, Page 147

OBITUARY.

ANOTHER old resident of Picton in the person of Mr William Dart, of Waikawa Road, has gone to join the great majority, having succumbed to in ffuenza on August 2nd. Mr Dart went to Picton with the Wakamarina rush in 1864, and by his industry and honourable, straightforward character gained the respect of all who knew him, and made a home for his family which is one of the show places in the district. Mr Dart was a staunch supporter of the church, the Literary Institute, the local Building Society,and every thing that tendered to the ad vancement of his adopted home. Mr Dart leaves one son, who is a student at Bishopdale, Nelson, and three daughters, as well as a widow, to mourn his loss, and to them the sympathy of all classes of the community of Picton has been rendered. Mr Dart was seventy-four years of age, and until quite lately was as upright of form as he was in nature, but of late bis health has not been so gocd, and influenza finished the reaper’s work, and carried off one of the most respected inhabitants of that little town.