THE LATE MR LIGAR.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2189, 2 March 1881, Page 3

THE LATE MR LIGAR.

The death was announced recently of Mr Ligar, who was Surveyor-General of Victoria from the year 1858 to 1869. The following particulars of the deceased gentleman's career are taken from Victorian "Men of the Time:”—“Charles Whybrow Ligar, civil and military engineer, was born in 1809, at Ceylon, where his father was stationed with his regiment. Ho was educated at the Boyal Military College, Sandhurst, and received a commission in the Boyal Engineers, but shortly afterwards resigned ; was employed on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland until 1840, when ho was appointed Surveyor-General of Now Zealand by Lord John Bussell; was wrecked at the Capo of Good Hope, and did not arrive at New Zealand until the end of 1841. Ho purchased all the land from the Maoris for the European settlers, and was appointed colonel and commandant of the New Zealand militia, and took part in the war at the Bay of Islands. He retired from the position of Surveyor-General of Now Zealand in 1856, and after residing for a short time in the southern portion of that colony came to Victoria in 1857 as land commissioner for the province of Otago. Became SurveyorGeneral of Victoria in 1858, and retired on a pension in 1869. Beturned to Europe, and after residing for some time in England, Germany, Morocco, Algeria and Spain, finally settled down in Texas, where he embarked in stock-raising. Mr Ligar married in 1839 Grace, daughter of Thomas Hanyngton, Dungannon, and grand niece of the Earl of Oharlemont; and in 1869 Marie, daughter of the late Captain Williams, of Auckland, New Zealand.”