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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1576, 21 October 1912, Page 6

Cable news has been received of the death of Colonel Wnrdrop Moore, a sportw mi\n and ox-Army nian well known in New Zealand, having visited (ho Dominion every season for tho past six years to flslu and decr-stallc. Hβ farms in a, big way r.t a beautiful place in High Blajltyrc, Scotland, and was a breeder oj nigliclnss stock nnd a fine judge of horses. During ono of liis dear-stalking oxj ,, ™ , ' tions in tho south some years ago, Colonel Moore had the misfortune to fall over a, cliff in very rough country, and underwent a terrible experience in being eon. vcyod to tho nearest railway etntioii. His life was almost despaired of, but after a long spoil in a private hospital at Dunedin lio recovered thoroughly, uid_ dame lo Now Zealand as usnnl the following year. In the course of an interview wiHv a| Dominion reporter last May, Colonel Mooro staled that New Zealand was the most wonderful trout country in the world Ho himself had caught a ton of trout that (last) season. He was the sportsman who so strongly urged v the tiovj eminent to set up n smoke-house ax Lake Taupn, in order that the surplus trout caught could 1)0 utilised as a food produet, instead of thousands being thrown, away every month during the season. Colonel Mooro was a middle-aged man. Hβ leaves a widow, ono son, and ono daugh* tor.