OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XIV, 3 October 1896, Page 429

OBITUARY.

AVERY sad accident happened at New Brighton last week when Miss Florence Wells fell off the Pier and was drowned. Her mother resides at Linwood, and the greatest sympathy is felt for her and the whole family. The young lady was engaged to be married, was only twenty years of age, and very pretty. It has been a great shock to all her friends. She was employed at Skelton, Frostick, and Co’s., and greatly liked by all her companions. The body has not yet been recovered, though the tug went round from Lyttelton to search for it. On Friday last the news of the death of Mr Haultain, of Opawa, came as a great shock, he only having been laid up a week, but suffering very severely from internal inflammation. Mr Haultain was a son of Colonel Haultain, of Auckland, and occupied a responsible position on the staff of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency in Christchurch, where he will be much missed. He leaves a widow and two young children, for whom the deepest sympathy is felt in their sad bereavement. Mrs Fisher, wife of Captain Fisher, Beckenham, Colombo Road South, passed away on Tuesday, after a long and painful illness. The deceased lady was much beloved and esteemed by a large number of friends in Christchurch, and her place in the home circle will long be a void.