VALEDICTORY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1202, 13 March 1885, Page 3

VALEDICTORY.

It la with the profoundest grief we have tn record the death of Mr Michael Joseph Moeghtoia. fanner, of Eanwolengh Flat, which took plane suddenly oa Wednesday evening last, and many there are we are assured will be equally shocked when the sad intel'igenoe reaches them. T)eoeased Jivi been ailing for the past week or ten dayi, complaining chiefly, however, only of a, gore throat, and as evidence of how lightly be looked upon it. he was in Clyde on Sat* urlayJdternoon last conducting as usual ogjiajry business; but since then he tedtatned at home, and on Wednesday afternoon, feeling somewhat worse, he determined oh placing himself medical treatment,"and with that view went to the YHinstah Hospital to consult Dr Lewis, but be had barely been there an hour when the dread visitant appeared and our friend was waited to that bourne from which no traveller ever returns. The deceased was Jydm ih Prince B1 ward’s Island, a British oolony in the Onlf of Sfc. Laurence, but at gn «jtrly age removed to the United States of America with his parents, a little later on he visited Australia, and in due course oame down to Otago after the discovery of gold '"as made known, and, was amongst the grit who ajrtyea on„the Dunstan. Pnshing.hia way, ahead by visited Fox?*, -now bpown as Arrow River, also the Shotover, atayijg there, some time. He then came down country again and located himself on the Bannockburn, from there he next locates himself m Butcher’s Gully, this was some where in 1867, and from then the decease began to interest himself in public matters political and otherwise. Being possessed of fair means, of an active temperament, ever re\dy, to take up the cudgels oa behalf of the weak, and to raise his voice in the genital interest, he soon gained the popular good will. Deceased shortly after this married, and until about 1878 remained in Butchers Gtlly, when he took up—under the deferred payment system-a large section of laid on E irnsclengh Fiat, bring part of an area he ha I been main y insttumental in wetting thrown open for settlement. At about the'same time a vacancy occurring In the Vincent County Council fir the Barn eclengh Riding, at the request of a large number of the ratepayers decease ! consented to Contest the uait, a id waa returned by a large rasj irity over Mr Rees an I Mr Sam con, who also aspired for the hj monr Since when he has ever represented E irnsclengh in th-Council, dnrinv the time occupying the honoured post‘ion of Ch dm in, and at the time of his death that of Treasurer. His public career was a success, and we feel assured his absence from theCiuncil table will be felt by his fellow Councillor’s. De ceased, who at the time of his death was m the prime of life, only 33 years of age, leaves a wife an I large family to mourn his loss, snvl the keenest sympithy is felt for them in their trouble, The remains are to be interred in the C ! yde Gemot ary on Satur■day -. be upon, leaving the Dunstan H >spi tal 1 at 2 pin ~ when we tiust to see a Irrge assemblage in a tendance to pay the fast tributeof respect to a worthy man and a good citizen.