OBITUARY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XIII, 26 September 1903, Page 911

OBITUARY.

Mr William Timms, formerly of No. 3 Division Armed Constabulary, and an old pensioner, died at Somerset Hotel, Capetown, on August 7th. Ha served in the Maori War. His discharge certificate was dated at Wanganui, November 3rd, 1869.

On September 12th Mr James Wall, Wanganui’s oldest settler, died there at the age of ninety-two years. He cams to the colony in 1857, and went in that year to Wanganui, where he had resided ever since. During his life ii’S British Sovereigns reigned—George 111., George IV., William IV., Queen Victoria, and Edward VIL

Mr A L. Edgar, a master mariner, died at Suva on August 29th, aged 70. He served in the Crimean war under General Sir H. E. Wood in 1354. He was an old naval brigadesman and was grandson of John Edgar, the third lieutenant to Captain Cook, when the celebrated navigator was killed at the Sandwich Island.

There passed away at the Dunedin Hospital Alfred Lawrence da Reya, whose death was the result of a heroic and successful effort to save the life of a comrade. About a year ago at Orepuki the deceased bravely entered a shaft impregnated with firedamp and rescued John Forbes, who lay in an unconscious condition. The rescued man recovered, but since the incident his rescuer had spent most of his tlm® in hospital, succumbing a week ago to the last of a series of hemorrhages, MR JAMES DARROW. Our Thames correspondent reports the death of Mr James Darrow at the mining township on Sunday after a severe illness of more tham a month. The late gentleman was a particularly prominent citizen, and had the reputation of

being one of the most able bu-une-.- men in the Thames. He was a native of the North of Ireland, being born at Ballymena in 1840, an-1 at the age of 18 he began nis colonial career in the Vio torian goldfields. Four years later he was in the gold rushes of Otago. and again latiar in the rush following the startling discoveries on the rich Hartley and Riley claiuw. At that time—and now more tlisn ever—one carrying trade waa more lucrative then the pursuit of gold, and Mr Darrow established a lino bet-tveeu Duncan and Dunedin. His connection with Auckland dates from She Waiksito War, in which he belonged to tha commissariat department. In

1867 the discovery of gold in the Thames drew him to that district, and kept him there. He was connected with the management of the Una, Tararu Creek, Queen of Beauty and Flora McDonald batteries. He became interested in the contracting and timber businesses, and at the time of his death had large interests in the timber land of the district. Mr Darrow was for five years on the Thames Licensing Bench, and took a great deal of interest in public concerns- He married in 1869 a daughter of the late John Taylor (Thames), who bore him nine children.