IN MEMORIAM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 59, 11 February 1885, Page 3

IN MEMORIAM.

f •■. •■•-.^v ■*■•" '■••• v <ii.- ?^;-T.-:iAr.-'-^ '.;-■ • THE^£ATE. : :MR EPWABD / jIOE. -The subject of this bbiluary ."'iiiilic'O' died yesterday at the residence of his brother, Mr G. F. Boe. The deceased was an old identity, who has had rather an adventurous- colonial cif eery* a 'brief reference: to which will not be. without interest. ■■ The late Mr E'dward'Boe came out to Ne\y Zealand m 1841, m the, barque Gertrude^ * &b*6ri' after Tits' iVrMvan"* lie was one of the number who volunteered service on board the Government i brig Victoria, which. "vya.S-tailij-'O—Ufien. j "iiespMcUcd. iata. the: Strait to 'intercept and sink the canoes of the Maori, chief Bopata, returning from the . AVaiuau massacre. The Government fearing reprisals did not allow the scheme "to be carried out. -The dcce^sed^Was. also employed with Mi 1 Park "as"a Purveyor m . the very early days, and served m the Wellington militia m 1848-49, and was^ nearly killed m the earthquake of '48^ He was m Messrs Bethune and Hunter's* .(iniploy for 11 years, ami at that time : lield the reputation of being, physically speaking, the strongest man m Wellington. He left for Victoria, and was on various diggings near Melbourne for some five years. He afterwards carried on m partnership with Messrs . Bull the New Zealand. Advertiser.: He subse- , quently sold out his share .jam! went %o the Otago gold' fields m 18G0. He 'subsequently worked on the Lyttelton, Tithes,, rand wasitherre during the 'Duke : of Edinburgh's visit. A prominent feature hi the procession which took place was tho subject of this : ; n6tioe, ',whp, with a printing press mounted on'a waggon, and attended by his ink boy and "flyer," printed and distributed handbills on the route of the procession. He afterwards worked at the Government printing offieo, and the last trade job he had was m the capacity .of press-man • and machinist oiV'theM.vNAWATO' Stand ahd s^otne three years ago. He passed away • after a long illness, dying m his brother's arms, at tho age of GO^years. Consumption and physical decay finally (jnded his days .'after ; a long, and chequered .life, m the colonies. His father, the Lite •Mr Edward Boe, of Wellington, died some i eight years ago. The deceased had re-.J Native's m Feilding and elsewhere,-" who will learn Avith -regret of his death. The funeral will take place to -morrow afternoon ...;;. H; :