OBITUARY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17280, 22 September 1916, Page 2

OBITUARY.

HON BERNHARD R. WISE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, September 20. The death is announced of the Hon Bernhard R. Wise, Agent-General for New South Wales, who died of heart failure while talking to his wife last night. Mr Wise had just returned from atwo days’ visit' to Australian camps, and was apparently in his usual health. (The Hon Bernhard Ringrose Wise was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on February 1, 1858, and was consequently in his fifty-ninth year at tho time of his death. He ivas the. second son of Justice Wise, and was educated at Rugby. He was a scholar of Queen’s College," Oxford, and won the Cobden Prize in IS7B. At college he took a keen interest in athletic matters, and was one of the founders and first president of the Amateur Athletic Association of Great Britain. Mr Wise was the amateur mile champion in 1879, 1880 and 1881. He was called to the Bar of the Middle Temple in ISS3. Soon after returning to his native country he entered Parliament, and quickly attracted notice. He became Attorney-General in 1887, retaining the position until the following year. Two years later he resumed his old, post at the head of the Law Department, and continued in office till 1894. He was ono of the delegates for New South Wales to the Australian Federal Convention, hut since the Union had not accepted any official position. Some months ago he went to London as Agent-Genoral for the State,)

R. H. WOOD. The death is announced of Mr Robert Haswell Wood, who served on the Christchurch City Council for seven years as representative of the southwest ward. Mr Wood was seventytwo years cf age, and retired from tho council in 1897. He was bom in 1843 in New South Wales, and was educated in England and at the Geelong Grammar School, Victoria. He came to New 'Zealand in 1861, and settled in Christchurch in the following year, where he lias been well known in mercantile circles. For thirteen years Mr Wood was associated with the Hon William Montgomery in the timber trade. In 1881 he established a business in Christchurch on his own aocount, but .it was afterwards known under the style of Wood and Lanrie. Mr Wood was for five years a member of the 'Christchurch Hospital Board, and during one year of that period acted as chairman. * The flag at the City Council Chambers was flying at half-mast yesterday as a mark of respect.