DEATH OF COLONEL PITT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 20 November 1906, Page 2

DEATH OF COLONEL PITT.

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BODY TkANSr'ERRKJ) FROM CUIUS rCuUivCll. Per Press Association. Lluisicliuich, :\uvcm!,er ii). Ihe body u IL . i a ( C fj OJ) . A. l J itt was this iUtornuon iran-iened from 'lie mor.uary c.iapj. iu ,he Barba-uoes-street cemetery, wirne it lias oeen lying since yesterday, lo the Goyemmem steamer Tuianckai, which leaves to-night direct fur Nelson on the ai rival of tiie late express iiom the Suum, by which the Premie, and the Hon. J. A. Millar are tiavy.ltng At 3.30 p.m. the mourners began to as embie in fiont 0 f the viny chapel, and sn jrtly before four o'cluck the coriege moved off fur the railway station. There a special tiain was in readiness to continue the journey to Lyttelton. There were present at the funeral the. Hon. W. Hall-Jones, Hon. C. C. Bowen (Speaker of the Legislative Council), Hon. E. C. Stevens, Hon. C. Louisson, Mr A. Longden (British representative at tn e Exhibition), Mr H. J. Scott (South Australian Commissioner), Mr G. S. Munro (General Manager), Lieut.-Colonel Bauchope (Officer Commanding the District) and other officers, T. W. Stringer (Crown Prosecutor), G. Pauling (Deputy-Mayor), H. R. Smith 1 lown Clerk), A. D. Dobson (City Surveyor), and representatives i.f banks and Governmont Departments, uio Lytielton Times, Press J Press Association, and Handsard staff, together with a number of private trieiids. Dean Harper conducted a short service at the chapel, and the full burial service will be given at the interment at Nelson on Wednesday*

AN APPRECIATION. Per Press Association. Auckland, November ig. Referring- to tha death of the Hon. A. Pitt, the Hon. Geo. Fowlds said to a Star representative to-day: "He was an exceedingly fine-spirited man, with a very li!£h sense ol' pubtic duty. He possessed a keen, clear, legally-trained mind, but at the same timo was abie to take a practical view of every question that arose. He was also a man of culture, a polished speaker, and always considerate of the feelings of others. The death of such a man will be keenly felt by his colleagues, and his place will b« very difficult to fill.