THE LATE MR C. T. BATKIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 189, 24 August 1903, Page 4

THE LATE MR C. T. BATKIN.

"Oiifi amoog tbo oM <jf New I'iyiuoi'Ab, v-i.-.j v,..r.il i;:L;e:i!b.r tho I name of Mr U. T. J?.;'.kin, as an oM "pioator" of <>iig'>.t bs astonit-hed !o iK-cr o! i:L.u.;-tu i.u Wellington lately. Tk<?T* a\o f i'.! rly pr- •, eons new, I 1i5i,:.. 1 .), v, V- .i;i it elect having iec iv . .heir . t':„.:'in;; from Mr Batkir., r Outiio s'lCtt. Ho wna a gi-e-.it fiiend of tluj la-.-.: Maj ir 0. BrownV, coming t.ul viy iikdy in the earn.; ship, find Iha-d sonic time in the i early firiirs at llat-nui or. ihe Oar(lioyton Koad, in Mai jr 0. Brown'd old j house i>i tha luTow, d-.e:rcyed by the [ Maoris during tin; wi'. M<;. 0, T. ji-ia'.k.n wb at th-.i-. time eecrotaiy to Mr Biown who w»s tui-.eriutondont. '(Subsequently Mr Batkin bought ft portion of the proporcy now Air S-ixoa's, living there wi'h !is w f an 1 children till le-.ving fer Auckland, v,he>; the i>te Mr R. Fb.er.ey, fii.-o e:.it r of sh« ISews and aa euily tditos- of iho Yaia- ' rialsi Herald bought thu rlice of him. , ' Mr Ba\kin was at ore t me an untirirg worker, fond of literature too, Oharle* Dickens, and the witty .and hnmorous writers ; a great admit ei of poetry and the poets Byron, Tom Mocre, etc., indeed, he was mote or le-s au universal apprcciator of art geu; rally; liking , Jtho bush also and notuvid tceneiy. Bjing further of a genial t mperameut , he thoroughly enjoyed a dance. He occupied positione in tho Government ( for a great many years, retiring at last from the office of Commissioner of ] • Stamps and Auditor-General on a pen- , eion. The manner of his death, to- , gather with the terrible fate of the lite , Major Brown, eetm only lamentable ( and cruel finiaheo to the lives of both, , social and political.