OBITUARY.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20169, 23 February 1931, Page 18

OBITUARY.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL BAIRD. (VmTID VKBBB ASSOCUTIOir—BT nuuiui—COPlßWH*.) (Received February 23rd, 11.15 p.m. l 1 LONDON, February 21. Brigadier-Gleneral Alexander Baifd a brother ■of ; Lord Stonehaven, wa killed in, a motor collision on'the Lon don-Southampton road. , [Brigadier-rGeneral Alexander Waltei Frederick Baird was secretary of tlw Carlton Club. He Was born in 1876 He entered the Army in 1897, and served in the South African and European Wars. He was British Militarj at Madrid in 1920, and a 1 Constantinople from 1920-24. He retired in 19241] ' SIR EDWARD HENRY. (CHlTtl/ PBES3 ASSOCIATIOK—BT . EUSCTJtH TELEGRAPH —COPTVOHT.) LONDON, February 20. The death has occurred of Sir Edward Henry, formerly a member of the Indian Civil Service. He was InspectorGeneral of Police at Bengal in 1891, on special duty in South-Africa 1900-1, Assistant Commissioner of Metropolitan Police 1901-3," and' Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis 1903-18. He introduced the fipger-print system at Scotland;-Yard. MR JOSIAH VILES. (ritlss ASSOCIJ.TIOX CTLBCUUH.) WELLINGTON, February 21;. Tlie death has occurred of Mr Josiah Viles, aged 91, at. Ffeatherston. Mr Viles was boni at Somersetshire, England, and came to New Zealand wjth his parents in 1841. The family settled on the Kaiwarra Flats, and experienced the big earthquakes of ,1040 and 1855. . .Mr Viles served in the Maori War, took part in the Gabriel's Gully gold rush, and subsequently was engaged in farming in the Wairarapa. MR WILLIAM WOtt.ES. Mr William Miles,-wlio died at New Brighton last Thursday, .was well known and respected throughout Canterbury. - His father, William Miles, was a hop farmer in Kent, and tlie family,went first to Australia when. Mr Miles was an infant,, moving to New Zealand in j 1856 and eventually settling at Folly I Farm, Springston. Mr Mile's fanped with" his father af Folly Farm, and. also .at Bayhham, Aylesbury; In 1881 he' married Mary, daughter of Mr J. P. Eestell, first of schools-in'.Canterbury# A-': <.■- • In his earlier Vyears hfr Mil^wasa ■ keen rifle shot, being a: member of tho Xineoln /sßifle Club and, th"«j. Honorary Deserve-Corps. Mr Miles ,finaflj»*ettled in New Brighton, in, 1910, and for many years aeted as librarian, to. the, ,'Kijig Edward - Memorial 'All his- life 'be has? Thottgh,crossed by chtrnm? gtanees 'He'. stiJl»<<B^Ued # Sffdugh... Since I coining to- New bo ha<L*xeMere£ • faithfiaVsßeryice. t», sUi "4;he Opacities of and &urchwardeiu , - v* funeral - tooki-placo ton Saturday ' morning) .going first .to. St, v. Faith's Church, where the vicar, the Bev. T, CqrnQWr. assisted by- the . Rev. "Jasper took the service, and thence to the Burwood 0. A. Tobin officiated ;.at the gravesideMr Miles was laid io rest 'beside his beloved daughter Evai wljo died "two anda half -years ago.'.'He is. survived by his widow, threa sontb Ernest Braithwaite Mile's, Harold Miles, and Major Reginald Miles; two daughters, Sister Lucy Gifford Miles,/and Mrs'A. Evans; one sister Mrs J. Hurst, Feudal ton; and 9\X grandchildren * ' v MOTO&GA&-' dVT&W BANK. ' Croua' , t'J *' / Febro#ry W If' Three' young' women were, admitted to the Hospital at ,2A5 *pxii on-fjunday, .wh?n amotor-car a ']>ank at MacThey wpre';—• ' i ■ \ Bessie Bunean, 18,~o£ Kaikorai. > NahcyvMc&§od, ,ot; Casjle,, street.. Barton, Jfl, oft,^averl k 'head injuries, list. -The, other,- ' h two girls received less 'serious heaii ifljuHes and bruise?. '•