OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 117, 15 June 1909, Page 3

OBITUARY.

Jilt. THOMAS SOLI 3. Death has removed still another of Taranaki's pioneer settlers in t'ne person,. I <>f Mr. Tlioums So>, who passed away ■ ! yesterday moi-iiinjj after a snort illness.! I Mr. Sole was a Kentish man, a.al was | Imrii near the Xorlii Korelaml. He left I I'lviiKiulli with-other members of llie I Sole-l-'oreniim family in the ship Oriental, and arrived in New I'lymoiitli ia November, 1841. He was quite a iad at that time. His youth and early iiiiinnoo'i I were sin-in in agricultural pursuits at Mangnuraka. where lie lived until driven oil tlie .place by the maeiiinatioiis of katatore and the .iiili-land-selliiig Icagir After that he farmed a property at Lower .Uangorci until the outbreak o. hostilities, when he moved into New IMynumtli. He was in the tlrst mounted corps formed, and bore liis share ot the arduous duties which followed, aloflg with his fellow-settlers, in the deleiuje of their homes. At the conclusion of the Maori war Mr. Sol., elected to remain in and around New .Plymouth, and with the exception of a holiday or two when ho travelled over practically the whole of New Zealand, he lived hen since. He was a clean-living man, « warm supporter of the Wesleymi Ohurch and one of its most regular attendants at service. In the early days he usee ■ to-accompany the missionaries sonvv times in their travels away into the wi.J parts of the Island. He travelled over land to Auckland, through Kawlua and Raglan, and secured some land in the latter locality. During lus W " (taji we have often heard the three brothers, Messrs. Thomas, James and David hole, held up as hale and hearty specimens of the tvpe of manhood to whom was entrusted the work of colonising this part of His Majesty's possessions, lie was « particularly active man, and worked rc-Milarlv in his garden. One man who tafew him well says "He had on y one love, and that was 'work.' He waa great exponent of the gospel of wo k was required in any asrepniciit with ~,!,„ 11 \, word was his bond." Only a w k oagohewenttoWestownto ;;„,,e seme fruit tn.es for Ins brother lames who is over HI years of age. A w *, s later, whilst work-in l|» .rnrden he caught a chill, and Wi.it hj? on the illness which outamted in his death at the ripe age of 81 years. The late Mr. Sole was married n lftra or 1850 to Miss Sarah Devemsh, who predeceased him by some 13 or 14 years. leaves a son and a daugh cr, Mr. T Gore Sole and Miss Rose Sole, lie flertakcspmcethisafenioo,, n deference to the wishes of the deeeaseu the funeml obsequies will be of a quiet nature. ._';