OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 215, 18 September 1901, Page 2

OBITUARY.

♦ ' ■ [PHR PBBBB ASSOOIATIOY.) Reoelved 18,1.10 a.m. Sydnk, <5 ptember 17, Obituary: W. A. Shortland, one of the football team Just returned from New Zealand. Excepting that he complained of being weiried with the large amount of travelling on the tour, he was apparently in good health till taken suddenly ill yesterday. He euooumbed today, to infiuenia and kidney trouble. DEATH 07 OOLONIL FBAMR. Thames, September 17, Colonel Fraser, the Sergeant***Arms, died to day. He wu compelled to return home after the beginning of the session by ill health. Previously he had a slight stroke of partly*'*, whioh brought on complications. He saw serves in the Waikato war and was Warden in the Thames district. He was elected to Far ia<nent three times; and was appointed 3ergeiot-at Arms seven years ego. Colonel Eraser was 73 years old. OAPTAIM MORRIB LRVT. 1 Another pioneer settler of New Zea--1 hnd passed away suddenly at the 1 j Nhlso i Hospital en Friday uight, saya | the Nelson livening Mail), in Captain ■ Morris Levy, in his 81st year. It wfll ; be remembered that his wife, lira • Levy, died last February, and Captain > Lsvy's family determined to give the old gentleman a trip for the benefit of his health and to prevent him brooding • over his bereavement. Captain Levy returned to Ne'son the day before his 1 death; but he was so crippled by rheaI mabhm that he had to be carried from ' the steamer to the Hospital. On Fri- , j day night, as he was bending from* '| stool, he passed away, the cause of i. death being heart disease. The de- • ceased was an old identity, with » I I varied and adventurous career. He 1 1 was once well known as the owner and • ua<ter of New Zoaland coasting vessels, 11 and he bad also been a soldier and a> i newspaper man, latterly assisting bis 1 son-in-law, Mr Martin, agent for the Dresden Piano Company. As showing > the strong vitality of the old Captain, a ' friend relates that oae day during the i past year, he offered to assist the old gentlemau to get a piano into the shop. 1 " Thank you," he replied, " lom mani age it best myse'f." He took aa ' hoaourable part in the early U*m warn, and he was especially associated I with the d fentn of Opotld attha time I cf the murder of the Rev Mr Yolkner. He and his «ife went to NeUon in the ■ fifties, ami he has resided there ever sine. Captain Levy leaves a urge. 1 family. Of his three sons, one is m New South Wales; another in Freei mantle, W.A.; and a third at Palmer- : Bf.cn North, N.Z. Of the daughtrre, , one is Mrs Cohen, of Sydney ; a second Mie Se.inbohm (Framantle, W.a..); i a third Mrs Martin of Nelson; m, I fourth Mrs Abraham-, of Pslraentom t North; and a fifth (unmarried), Mis* i Rosa Levy. CAPTAIN MATTHEW JOHAB. p Captain Ma»t'iewJoiws,wV)x)»e death , we recorded yesterday, was one of the [ oldest Taranaki settlers. Be arrived in the colony with hia parents in the . -hip "Oriental" in November 1841. , Deoea«ed took an active part in tbe , Maori War. Those who served under ' ; him in No. 2 Company, Taranaki ; Volunteer*", of which he was Captain, . expressed their surprise and deep r»• gret when the sad news reached them, that a well known and highly respected officer ha I been summoned from their ( midst. For many years Captain Jonas . has resided near Waitari, where he gained the es<*em of all wh» knew iiim. By his deitb, the district in which he lived has sustained a great hss. He leaves a widow, one son (Mr W, Jona«), tnd four daughters (Mr< C. Bayly, Mis J. B Hine, and Mrs K. Walter, all of Toko), and Miss L\ Jooas.