MR. JOHN FOX, STUDHOLME JUNCTION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 14, Issue 24, 14 June 1906, Page 20

MR. JOHN FOX, STUDHOLME JUNCTION.

On May 31, there passed away at Studholmc Junction, Canterbury, one of the pioneers of the Colony in the person of Mr. John Fox. The deceased was attracted to the Victorian goldfields in the fifties, and came over to. New Zealand in 1862, being amongst the first at the Gabriel's rus/h. The Dunstan and Shotover followed, and, not meeting with any great success on those felds, he left for t:.e West Coast. The hardships of those days on the Coast are well known to all the old diggers, and a bad attack of fever laid him up for a considerable time. Recovering, and meeting with poor luck, he came back to Cardrona, at that time one of the richest fields in New Zealand. After some years' work on that 'diggings he started farming and contracting on the Hawoa, and was very successful. Some eight years ago he sold his farm in that district and shifted to Sturlholme Junction, where he resided till (he tine of his death, lie is survived by his wife and grown-up family of three sons and two daughters.— R.l. P.