OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 3, 5 January 1903, Page 2

OBITUARY.

I * —* i MB. LEVI SAKTEN. i The announcement, which we aatkf F with much regret-, of the death of Mr t Levi Sat ten, will come as a great anrt | p> ise to our readers, as it was only thb t1 day last wet k tbat he waa in town, and 3 appareutly enjoying most robust health. Oa Tuesday latt he wtut to Waitara a o i bu«iu*s«, and on returning to hie , home at Tikorangi was seized with in* . : tr-i ai faiotnesp, arising from wrakaaif I of ths heart's ao ion. It was seenthat > the attack was serious, and he gradually i sank until Sunday morniug, when ha pissed away at the age of 62. He.waa ) bat an iufant wben his parents arrived 1 in the district in the. first Tfiatol ! that oime direct to Few Plymouth ia s 1841, the Willim Bryac. After laavr iog school he learnt his father's trad*, • that of a wheelwright, but the war 1 broke up that buainm asd he never 9 returned to it. During the wsr- b» i became a membsr of the military fens!, - a< d in that capacity took hie part in ' f that eventful time, It waa abiuttU* 1 tim> be begiu to make that oloeo s acquaintance with the action of the M a-, Moturoa, which served him in good re<id on becoming a member cf the Harbour Board. He w< rked for coma ' time in the surf bo Us which aemd ap a communicating link between arriving and departing vessela aod the allor*. Subgpqu-n'ly he took up a grant d land in the Special Settlement for Volunteers at Tiicorangi, and on that 60 aor s he oontinued to residd ever sinoc. He hid, how*, ev.-r, lately oimpleted the purohaaa of Mr Cunningham's 400 acre farm, oppcsite lo his own. It w«s ohi-fly owing to his unceasing exertions that 1 the Tikorangi bridge w»s eventually built across the Waitara river, and ha ' always cliim d. that it promis d when tha special waa opened. Few .people are better * knowa in this district than the subjsrt of this no'jce, his persist mt sdipaaay of the hole in the brai&atlr walMw he smd to wash through huriM earned for Mr Syrian notoriety.. Although of great htifc, ■he deceased was a very active van, and and expert inthe difficult «Mtt«r of removing house. His onenaat hobby was the improvement of breakwater, and though hia arflwh >, did not commend themselvee tt ttpert*, history will prove whethar or apt he was right. His' objeot waa tfco most praisewerthy one poeaibli the welfare of the dietriot'. A moat bw:* man has passed away, and there is no doubt he will he greatly missed.' jfar about ten years he w*a a mesaber ef the Harbour Board, and at one Jf(M .rat on the Olifton Council. The Waitara Regatta owes much of it* popular* ity to his effjrte. JSte l'avts a family of six s >ns and two .daughters to mown his loss. SIR VRVDEIUOK BABGOOD. FEB PKEBS ASSOCIATION. Wellihotjk, Janaary 4. Sir Frederick SirgoodV death n> suited from sytoope brought on, ilia supposed, by a rough ooaob journey from Miwhango to Taihape. Who* he retired on Thursday night ha waain ' his UfUil health, but early tha Mil morning Lady Sargood was aroused by her huebacd breathing heavily. Ha was then in a state of collapse and „ unable to speak. After gasping for a few seconds he expired. The body was brought to Wellington, ./ arriving at middiy oo Saturday. , It has been embalmed and will ha aent to Sydney by the Wsrrimoo. [Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, K.C.HGh head of the firm of Sargood, Son and Ewen, was the son'of the lata F. J. Sargood, of Broidgreen Lodge, Croydon. Lie was bern in 1884 and in 1858 j »ined bis father in business, taking obarge of the Australian boat* Dean and extending it to New Zealand, wher.% under the conduct of exoeption* illy able managers the various branohea have grown to enormous proportions. He was twice mirried, firstly, to a daughter of the Hon. Q. Rofle, M JC.GL, Victoria, acid subs'quently (1680) to the s cond daughter of Ur Tomlin. He was M.F. for the Central Provino* of. Victoria from 1874 to 1880, bting elected for South Yarra in 1882. > la 1883 he became Minister of when he re-organised the naval and mi'itwy defence. In 1890-1 and again in 1895 he held the rame portfolio, Ho was also Miuis er of Eduoa'ion. Ia 1880-2 he was appointed a member of the Bo»rd 6f Military Defenoe in Lon» don. He was a J.F., LieutenantColonel of Field Artillery, and a director <1 the Commercial Bunk of . Australasia. It was bis intentoo during the tour whloh ha waa taking to have gone overland to Auckland, accompanied by Mr Bamaon, Manger of the New Plymouth brand)*. Tha loss of such a piomineat saan is all' he more regrettable on aocount of ita painful suddennes'.