THE LATE MR. JAMES BUTTERWORTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 186, 20 August 1903, Page 2

THE LATE MR. JAMES BUTTERWORTH.

Expressions of deep regret were heard • on all sides on Wednesday at the los > of sujh a well known and much respec ed cit'seu as tbe late Mr. Biister- , worth. His stulrdy independence, grea l ; bnsinsss ability, aa 1 warm heartedne-.s had won him legions of fiiend-i, It is, " luwevir, as a collector of Mairi curios 1 thatdfreisei was bess kooWn outside New Plymcuth, and it ij probible that ia this capacity ha and Lis " Old Curiosity Haop" are kuown in mo>t p its of the globe-. Thesis tredsiireS were always a 6 >urce of delight io visitors', but they are of greater value to Taranaki as a whole than to any collector, aod we understand a movement b on foot to try an] secure their re'ention hi're as an invaluible memo, ill of ihe Maoiis, as they were found ia theeaily days. Numerous tolegrams and mess 'ges of warm beirty sympithy hive reached Mrs ButterwOrth and her orphaned children, and though they may not have the poorer to assuage her g- eat grief, y»t such kindly worded messages of regret and sympithy as these sent by the Preooier, Messrs E. M. Smith, Jennings, and others, are a Worthy tribute of re?pect to an esteemed daparted friend and an evidence that he has not lived in vain. The funrral «ill leave at t p.m. today for Te Henui Cemetery, and wili doubtless be very largely attended,