The late Mr E. H. Wright, J.P.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 64, 7 November 1885, Page 3

The late Mr E. H. Wright, J.P.

""• T~7 The deceased gentleman was one of the early settlers on the Manchester Block, arriving about 12 years ago in the slip Mongol, from England. He occupied various positions under the E. and 0. Aid Corporation, but latterly he prasctised his profession as a civil engineer and architect. He was for some. years. au energetic secretary to the Feilding Benevolent Society, in which capacity he did much good. He was also the first secretary of the Feilding 1 School Committee, and performed the duties of his office most efficiently. He made himself very popular .with the school children, who now sincerely mourn his loss. In early life he served Her Majesty in the Engineers, and was at Scutari during . the Crimean war, for which he wore his medals. He also served in British North America. When he left the army he.took up journalism as a profession, and was -for some considerable time connected with the Builder newspaper. When the project of settling the Manchester Block by the Emigrant and Colonist's Aid Corporation was mooted,, he: joined warmly in the movements He served for some months in the. London - office, and then determining to. assist iv person in settling the Block, came out to this colony. His previous lif e had unfitted him for the hard labor attendant upon creating a home iv a hush country, and he found that he must give place to others in that respect. He, in company with a practical man, opened a brickyard, and was* doing very well, when the bankruptcy of a tradesman in whom he had confided too much absorbed all of hie spare capital. Fortunately for him he had a small private income (that ceased at his death), which always enabled him to keep the wolf from the door. For the last two or three years he had shown signs of declining health, hut his demise, after so short a period had elapsed from the first seizure, was entirely unexpected. On Monday he attended the funeral of oneof his late fellow emigrants, andappeared in his usual health. On Tuesday he was striken down with paralysis, and on Thursday afternoon he expired, without having at any time during the interval recovered oomplete consciousness. We will say nothing hereof his faults, hut his good qualities were too well known, for us to have to recapitulate them. As he was a member of the Manchester Rifles, also of the Masonic body, a military and Masonic funeral will be accorded him to-morrow. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss, and we regret, to say that she is entirely unprovided fbr.