OBITUARY

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue VI, 6 August 1898, Page 176

OBITUARY

Much regret was felt in Auckland when the neiws (received by cable from the Rev. Thos. Spurgeon) became known last Saturday of the death in London of Mr J. Tonson Garlick, a prominent Auckland citizen. Mr Garlick, who had not been in very good health before he left Auckland, was visiting the Old Country for both business and pleasure purposes. Last May he had a serious attack of influenza, which he managed to get over pretty well, but while travelling from Scotland to England later on, he caught a severe cold and chill, which laid him up again. During his last illness, when he was the guest of the Rev. Thos. Spurgeon, he was most carefully nursed by Mrs Spurgeon, and had everything done for him that kind hearts could prompt to do, and medical skill could accomplish, but apparently to no avail. Very much sympathy is felt for Mrs Garlick, whose anxiety on account of her husband’s health compelled her to leave her father dying in Auckland in order to go to England with her young son; but it has been so ordered that she has not had the melancholy satisfaction of being with her husband when lie died, since slie could only have reached New York when the sad news of his death reached her. Mr Garlick has been in the colony since 1863, and at one time held a responsible position on the staff of the ‘Southern Cross.’ Later on he became a sharebroker, and was very successful in his mining speculations. He ultimately went into the furnishing business, at first in company with Mr Cranwell, but recently he bought out that gentleman and carried on the business under the style of The Tonson GarlickCo. (Limited). Mr Garlick was a very prominent member of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle,, and busied himself greatly in temperance and philanthropic work. He leaves a widow and three sons and two daughters.

The many friends of Mr Duncan McLennan, of ‘Fernaig,’ Rapakura, will be sorry to learn of his death, which took place at his residence last week. Mr McLennan, who had reached the very advanced age of 89, was the first settler in the Papakura Valley. He leaves a widow and three sons and daughters. The death of Mr George William Gane, of Rahotu (now Te Roti), Taranaki, is announced at the age of 54 years. The deceased gentleman has for many years been settled in Taranaki. and took an active part in local matters, being elected on several occasions to represent the district on the various boards and councils. He was a J.l’., and has, in the absence of the S.M., presided on the Bench at Opunake. About a couple of months ago he went to Wellington to consult with the medical gentlemen on a complaint he was suffering from, but he never returned, dying there on July 17th, after a short, but very painful illness. A MR JAMES DICKEY. One of the best known and respected of Auckland business men, Mr James Dickey, of the firm of Messrs J. and J. Dickey, ironmongers, died at his residence. City Road, on Tuesday morning last. The end was very sudden. Although for sometime past he had been in indifferent-health,-the result largely of business worries, he was not apparently in any immediate danger. At one o’clock on Monday afternoon, however, he was seized with a stroke of paralysis, and about three-quarters of an hour later he became unconscious. All that medical aid eould effect was done, Doctors King and Hope Lewis being in atten. dance soon after the seizure, but all measurqs to restore consciousness proved unavailing and deceased passed quietly away at half-past one on Tuesday morning. He leaves behind him a widow, three sons and four daughters. Mr Diekey was a native of Rutford, near Belfast, Ireland. He arrived in Auckland with his brother, Mr John Dickey, who predeceased

him by about twenty years, and his sister, Mrs A. R. Watson. The two brothers started in business as ironmongers, and their firm has lieen up to the present day one of the best known in Auckland. DEATH OF PRINCE BISMARCK. News was received on Monday evening of the death of Prince Bismarck at the advanced age of eighty-three. The decease of the great ex-Chanx-elhsr, at one time the foremost figure in Europe, has evoked from the press of all countries the most laudatory comments on his life and work. Among our illustrations is a portrait of the Prince reproduced from a recent sketch, and also a portrait group of his family.