The Late John Barth lomew

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 99, 9 February 1893, Page 2

The Late John Barth lomew

It is with feelings of the most profound sorrow, and sympathy with the members of his bereaved family and their numerous connections, that we announce the death of Mr John Bartholomew, which j took place shortly after ten o'clock on | Tuesday night. Our readers will remember that about thirteen weeks ago Mr Bartholomew was seriously injured while making a plucky and successful attempt jto stop a run -away horse. Owing to his splendid physique and sound constitution his speedy recovery w»s confidently hoped for, and this expectation would undoubtedly have been realised, but an attack of la grippe supervened which so reduced him that notwithstanding the best available medical skill was exercised, and the most careful attention given by affectionate relations, lie succumbed at last. The deceased was ono of those men who have largely assisted to develop the resourses of the colonies. He was a native of Scotland, possessed in a marked degree of all the virtues which characterise the sons of" the land of the mountain and the flood." Independent, honorable, and bra ye, a pood husband, a kind father, and a staunch friend. He feared God and honored the faith of his fathers. While shrewd in nil matters of business, he was open handed and liberal, but so unassuming that his pood deeds seldom found fame at his lips. He, and his excellent wife, haye reared, educated, and established a large family of sons and daughters, each and everyone of whom has the respect and esteem of all who have the pleasure of knowing them. In Feilding no man was held in greater estimation, and his loss will be deeply felt. Although he took no very active part in local or general politics yet his influence was considerable and when he exercised it, it was felt with great advantage to the cause he supported. The late Mr John Bartholomew was born in Lmhthgow (West Lothian), in the year 1626. He was the eldest son of a large family, all of whom were interested in sawmills and the timber trade. In the year 1866 he, accompanied by his brother Thomas, emigrated to Brisbane, where the latter yet resides. In 1878 Mr Bartholomew came to Feilding, where his brother Mr Peter Bartholomew was already established as a sawmill owner. They entered into partnership which continued until the effluxi^u of time dissolved it, in the meantime the greater part of their bush haviug been worked out. Since then Mr John Bartholomew took up new timber forests in the Kiwi- | tea where he since has cat ried on operations very successfully. He had three sons, James, now settled in Queensland, George and John, settled in Feilding, all of whom are married. Ho had seven daughters six of whom arc married, viz. : Mrs Kenneth Miller (of Maryborough, Queensland), Mrs Jamiesou (of Cairns. Queensland), Mrs W G. ILiybittle, aud Mrs Hugh fiurrell (of Feilding). Mrs James Hugh (of Palmerston North, now absent on a visit with her husband to Switzerland), Mrs A. B. Harding (of Auckland). The funeral took place this afternoon.