OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XV, 8 October 1898, Page 467

OBITUARY.

We regret to announce the death of Mrs Helen Boyd, widow of the late George Boyd, manufacturer of pottery and works of art, who, on Friday afternoon, died suddenly at her residence. Great North Road. Auckland. Mrs Boyd lived a very quiet life, and devoted much of her time to looking after her flowers, of which she was very fond. Auckland has reason to be very grateful to the deceased lady, who has left the city a great many valuable bequests. She has bequeathed to the City Council a number of outside vases for the Albert Park, and has desired her trustees (Mr Robert Reals, architect, and Messrs Mackechnie and Nicholson, solicitors) to expend £l,OOO in the purchase in Italy, which she once visited, of statuary to be placed in the park. To the Auckland Institute and Museum she has oequeathed vases, brackets, figures, busts, and other works of pottery art. To the Art Gallery, marble busts, figures and pictures of New Zealand scenery. She has also directed the trustees appointed by her will to expend £2OO in the purchase of oil paintings by artists resident in the colony of New Zealand scenery and subjects, and to hand such paintings over to the authorities having the management of the Gallery. Legacies to relatives and friends are provided for. The residue of her estate is to be applied by the trustees in the support and education of an orphan child or children in some orphanage in or near the city of Auckland conducted under the Protestant religion. The funeral of Mrs Boyd took place on Sunday afternoon. His Worship the Mayor, owing to ill-health, was unable to be present, but the City Council was represented in the funeral cortege by Messrs Kidd, Farrell, Trenwith, and Entrican; and the Auckland Museum by Mr Thomas Peacock; while among others present were Messrs R. W. Reals, E. A. Mackechnie, and 0. Nicholson (trustees).

Dr. Saunders, Messrs F. L. Prime. J. Winks, T. L. Murray, and G. Rhodes. There were 12 carriages. Mrs Boyd was interred in a vault beside her late husband in the Waikumete Cemetery. The Rev. R. Somerville officiated at the interment.

We regret to announce the rather sudden death of Captain Dauvergne, an old Canterbury settler, at Rangiora. on Friday night, at . ~e advanced age of 81. SERGEANT-MAJOR J EFFREYS. Very general regret was felt in Wellington on Monday last when it became known that Sergeant-Major W. J. Jeffreys had succumbed to an attack of conjestion of the. lungs, supervening on influenza, after an illness of only five days duration. The deceased Sergeant was exceedingly popular among the volunteers generally, and was an enthusiast in all military movements, and had been a member of the D Battery of the Artillery Volunteers for about 12 years, and was formerly a member of the E Battery in Canterbury, under captain J. C. Martin, the present captain of the Star Boating Club Submarine Corps in Wellington. In former years he was also an ardent footballer, and a member of the old Union Club. An engineer by trade, the deceased was for some years in the employ of Messrs S. Danks and Co., but left that firm about 18 months ago, to work in the foundry of Messrs Luke and Son, where he remained until his death. He leaves a wife but no family to mourn his loss.

The military funeral of the deceased Sergeant-Major took place on Wednesday afternoon, the long cortege leaving the residence of the deceased in Hankey-street at 2.30 o’clock, and proceeding on its sad journey to the Karori Cemetery. Captain Davies of the Kelburne Rifles, was in command of the parade, and most of the officers of corps in the city attended, and every corps in the Garrison was represented, to the number of nearly 200. The D Battery paraded 60 strong, under Lieut. Hume, to pay a last tribute of respect to their departed comrade. The coffin was draped with the

Union Jack, and the deceased's busby and sword was carried on a gun carriage drawn by two horses, and covered with exquisite wreaths, and was preceded by the firing party and the Garrison Band, playing the mournful ‘Dead March in Saul.’ and ‘The Garland of Flowers.’ The deceased's brother, from Christchurch, officiated as chief mourner. The Rev. W. Baumber, of Wesley Church, conducted the Wesleyan burial service, after which three volleys were fired over the grave by a party of Permanent Artillery, the customary bugle call being sounded between the volleys. Very large crowds lined the streets, and walked out to the cemetery to witness the funeral, which bore striking proof, by its unusual length, of the respect and esteem in which the late Sergeant was held by all classes of the community. Beautiful wreaths were sent by the officers of the D Battery, the members of the I) Battery, the deceased's

former officers (Captains St. Hill and Lieuts. Johnston and Pearce), Ser-geant-Major Robinson and other exmembers of the I) Battery, the noncommissioned officers of the Permanent Artillery. Captain and Mrs Moorhouse, Sergeant-Major and Mrs Finn, Messrs Luke and Co.’s office staff, and from the deceased's shopmates, and many private friends.

We regret to announce the death of Mrs Bishop, relict of the late John Bishop, of Titirangi. whose kind disposition had made her a general favourite. Mrs Bishop, who is quite an old colonist, having come out to New Zealand in 184(1, leaves many children and grandchildren to mourn her death.

It is with regret that we record the decease of Mr Edmond Twohill. son of Mr Edmond Twohill. of Thames, who died last week in the Thames Hospital. Mr Twohill was a great favourite in rowing circles and on the football field.

We announce the .death of Mr Alex. McKay, of Woodside (Auckland). who died last week from the effects of influenza acting on a previously enfeebled constitution.

Mr George Hamlin, of Dargaville has passed away at the age of sixty He leaves a large family.

The death is announced of the Rev. George Foster, of Timnru. He was the first Anglican minister of’limaru. but since 1875 he has been directing his attention to farming.

It is with great regret that we announce the death, last Wednesday afternoon, of Mrs W. Carey Hill, at her residence, ‘Turihau,’ Papanui Road, Christchurch, after a lingering llness. The deepest sympathy is expressed for Mr Hill on all sides in his loneliness. It seems doubly sad where there is no family to share the grief or in any way till the gap.

The New Brighton (Christchurch) residents were greatly shocked at the sudden death of Mr Joseph Armstrong, the postmaster

of the little seaside village. The post and telegraph office was the daily resort of both residents and visitors, and Mr Armstrong’s kindness and courtesy was much appreciated. It is hoped Mrs Armstrong will be allowed to carry ii on. She has always shared the duties with Mr Armstrong, and now has the deepest sympathy from all who know her, in her sad bereavement.