OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16416, 9 January 1919, Page 2

OBITUARY.

BARON MICHELHAM. (By Cable.—Prees iiwociation.—Copyriflit.) (Australian and N.L. Cable Association.) (Received January Bth, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 7. The death is announced of Baron Michelham. It is estimated he was worth £20,000,0C0. His son was married on Saturday, and Baron Michelham gave the bride, Miss Beatrice Capell, £1,000,000 as a wedding gift. The late Baron Michelham of Hellingly. who was the first baron, was a sou of the late Baron Hermann de Stern, and was born in 1851. He was tl~ senior partner in the iirm of Herbert Stern, London and Paris. The death is reported from England of Mr W. C. Robison, who was formerly accountant in the Bank of Australasia at Napier. Mr Robison married the widow of the late Mr James W. Carlile, of tho legal firm of Carlilc, McLean, Scannell, and Wood, The death occurred at Havelock North on Sunday of an old pioneer, in the person of Mr William Hawkins, who passed away at tho age of 74 years. He arrived in Dunodin, from England, in 1860, but ho returned to the Old Country in 1870 and got married, coming back to the colony at the end of 1870, and landing at Lyttelton. After spending a few years in Canterbury, he came to Hawke's Bay, where he had resided ever since. He leaves a widow and three sons, Mr Ivan Hawkins, Railway Department, Napier; Arch deacon Hawkins, of Auckland, and Mr W. G. Hawkins, of Havelock North. Mr Joseph James Chandler, of Palmerston North, died somewhat suddenly at the Palmerston North Hospital, following an attack of pneumonia. The deceased, wHb was a son of the late Sergeant-Major Chandler, of Wellington (a well-known veteran of the Maori war), was 45 years of age, and had resided in Palmerston for the past 31 years. The death is announced of Mr John Best, of Appleby, Nelson, aged seventytwo. Mr Best was a son of the late Mr Charles Best, one of tho pioneer settlers who landed in Nelson in the ship Charles Forbes in 1842, and setI tlea at Appleby, where the late Mr John Best was born, together with his lato brother Robert, they being the first twin boys born in Nelson. Mr Harry Mclntyre, who was at one time- 'in the forefront of Rugby footballers in Wellington, died in the Hamilton Hospital on Monday night, after undergoing an operation. He was a son of the late Mr Charles Mclntyre., baker, of Wellington, and was born in that city 53 years ago. After serving an apprentice'ship in Messrs Mills and Cable's foundry, he entered the Harbour Board's service as an engineer. For some years past he had been farming at Morrinsville. When he was a young man he was a brilliant football forward, and a tower of strength to the Poneke Club. He also represented Wellington in many big matches. ' He has left a widow, five sons, and three daughters. Four of the 6ons went to tho front, and three of them are still away.