OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 4

OBITUARY

' LADY YON HAAST.-AT. ROME. Mr. H. P. von Ilaast, of Wellington, r<v ccived cabled advice yesterday of tho death of his mother, Lady von Hnast, which occurred at Rome on Monday. Lady von Haast, who was in her 70th year, was the eldest daughter of the lato Mr. Edward Dobson, C.E., of .Christchurch, one of the Canterbury pilgrims, and was the widow of the late Sir Julius von Hnast. She was a woman of strong character and wido culture, and will bo , remembered in Christcliurch as an nccomplislwd pianist, whoso homo iu tho seventies and eighties was a rallying point for musicians. She was also of considerable assistance to her husband in mising liis publications. Recovering from a long illness after tiio death of Sir Julius, she went in IS9G to Europe, and travel loci extensively in Russia, Poland. Austria, Rumania, and Italy. Por several years her headquarters were at. Vienna, whero the friendship that had been formed in the earlv days of New Zealand lietween Sir Julius von Haast and the late Dr, von Hochstctlcr, the Director of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, was continued bv their widows. During her stay in Vienna, Lady von Haast devoted herself largely to nuis'cal and linguistic studies. Sho s'poko French and Gernum fluently, and was a good Itul.an scholar.' Even in her later years :lic took up fresh interests with enHiu-.iiism, and during out long winter in Poland learned lace-mak-ing. After meeting Mr. and Mrs. 11. P. voii Haast at Lausanne last autumn, and making a short tour with them round the Italian lakes, anil in the North of Italy, she wintered in Sicily. She was making a short stay in Rome prior to , going northwards, when sho was attacked by her last illness, during which her son, Air. George von Hnast, was with her. Tho bust of Lady von Ilaast in (lie New Zealand Academy of Pine Arts by a 1 olisll friend is an excellent and characteristic likeness. MR. S. JACKSON, APCKLAND. Illy Telegraph-l'ross Afcociatioa.! ' Auckland, July 29. The, death occurred this afternoon of Mr. Samuel Jackson, the father of the legal profession in Auckland, at the ago of 83. Deceased was a member of the ilrni of Jackson and Russell, and was admitted to the Bar iu England in ' 1553. Two years later ho came to New Zealand, where lie lias been established ever since. Mr. Jackson married Miss Mandeno, daughter of the late Rev. Air. Mandeno, Congregational minister, and Ihe following children are still living:—Mr. Samuel Jackson (now in San Francisco), Alessrs. ,T, H. and G. J. Jackson (auctioneers, of Auckland); Sir. Thornton Jnekson (of (lib firm of Jackson and Russell), Airs. A. Blair (of Wellington), Airs. W. Ahulill (of Auckland), and Aliss Ruth Jackson,