MR. MONEY WIGRAM.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1468, 18 April 1873, Page 2

MR. MONEY WIGRAM.

o?iiv dcatii, ua i^uiica tjy curecc telegram, of Mr Money Wigrana, founder of the wellknown firm of Money Wigram and Sons, of Blackwall, ship builders and owners, recalls the circumstances under which the new famous line of vessels trading under his name and house flag was established. At the period of his death, Mr Money Wit»ram had reached a very advanced age, and had outlived his younger brother, the Bishop of Rochester, who died some years since. During the early period of his business career he was associated with Mr Green, also of Blackwall ; but this partnership had terminated long before the first passenger-ship of Messrs Money Wigram and Sons' fleet set sail for Port Phillip. The Kent was the pioneer clipper in question. She arrived in Melbourne in 1552, and subsequently engaged in many an exciting ocean race with the Marco Polo, of Blackball renown. Encouraged by the success of the Kent and other older ships, Mr Wigram determined to build a fleet of new clippers for the Australian trade, and gradually added to his line the Sussex, Norfolk, .c,,«uu, t:,~~i — v— T7 >m l -- 1 ---V m — " ' t - J2ssex, ana JLondon. lnese have more recently been followed by the steamship Somersetshire, the Hampshire, and the steamship Northumberland, all of which enjoy a large share of public confidence and favor. In fact' the name of "Wigram" is truly a household word throughout Australia and New Zealand ; and it is not affectation to say that few men occupying a private station at home have earned for themselves, over the length and breadth of tkese distant colonies, a higher character for integrity and ■well-considered enterprise than the subject of this notice. Whatever he did was well done. The spirit of "thoroughness" pervaded his work ; and in all his business relations, during a long and useful life, he filled the position, before the world and in private life, of an honorable and upright gentleman. For a considerable time before his death Mr Money Wigram had withdrawn from auy active participation in the business of the firm which bears his name, but his place at the head of affairs has been taken by his three sons, Mr Charles Hampden Wigram, Mr Clifford, and Mr Robert Wigram.