OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIII, Issue VIII, 25 August 1894, Page 171

OBITUARY.

THE death of Mr Adam Porter, of Auckland, has left a blank in many public positions which will not be

easily filled up. For many years Mr Porter had suffered from bronchial asthma, contracted on the golddiggings near Hokitika, but though ailing rather more than usual for the last fortnight his numerous friends and acquaintances did not imagine the end was so near. He died at his residence, Eden 'lerrace, soon after eight o’clock on Saturday morning, during one of his paroxysms of coughing. Mr Porter’s career was a very chequered and interesting one. By his own smartness, perseverance, and intelligence, he finally obtained a position of competence and prominence. He had many narrow escapes of his life when buying gold for the Bank of New Zealand on the Greymouth river. At the Thames, where he lived for some time, be was intimately connected with various mining companies. After his return to Auckland, Mr Porter married the only daughter of Mr Charles Atkin, coachbuilder, whom he leaves with two little girls. He was at first a member of the firm, but when from ill-health he had to retire, he devoted his leisure to public affairs. At the time of his death, Mr Porter was Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and held a leading position in various other local bodies Mr Porter’s great love of flowers induced him to import rare bulbs and seeds, which he generously and freely gave to his friends, comparing their success in growing them with his. Mr Porter’was twice a candidate for the House of Representatives, the first time being nearly successful. On the last occasion be refrained from going to the poll. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon at the Waikomiti Cemetery. A very large and representative following testified to the respect and esteem in which the deceased gentleman was held by all classes of the community. Closed shutters and flags half-mast high publicly marked the sad event from Saturday to Monday night, and immense quantities of beautiful floral tokens conveyed private expressions of sympathy and regret.

News comes from England of the death of an exceedinely promising young man, an erstwhile Auckland resident. Mt* William Henry Alisoun Tebbs, son of the late Rev. W. Tebbs, Incumbent of St. Matthew’s, Auckland,went Home to continue the study of medicine which he began at the College and Grammar School, and Hospital in Auckland. He succeeded so well in his chosen profession that at the time of his regretted death at the age of twenty-six he was House Surgeon of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and could write M.R C.S., L.R.C.P. after his name. Much sympathy is felt for his widowed mother, who went'to England a few years ago for her husband’s health.