OBITUARY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 191, 2 January 1913, Page 4

OBITUARY.

LIEUT.-COLOXEL BECKINGHAM. Oil Tuesday morning, there died at Timaru Lieut.-Col. Beckinghani, South Canterbury Infantry, aged 55. Deceased arrived in Timaru with his parents as a youngster, and began volunteering us a cadet in the C. Battery over thirty years ago, and had been in the volunteer service until transferred to the staff, and under the new defence system was given charge of the infantry of the South Canterbury sub-district. He leaves a widow, a son and four daughters. - .

PRINCE GEORGE OF TONGA.' The death of Prince' George Fatakehi (father of King George 11, of Tonga) is announced, in the Tonga Gazette of November 21. Prince George, who was born on July 2, 1842, devoted the greater part of hia life to the service of the Government, and' leaves a record of faithful duty to' his people and country.

MR. V. R. MOSS. Mr. V. R. Moss, manager of the Westport branch of the Bank of New Zealand, died on Christmas Eve, after an illness of about four months, lie was bom in the island of ■St. Helena in ISGO. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and held the ofliee of Grand Pursuivant in the Grand Lodge of New Zealand at the time of his death.

REV. WALTER DUNKLEY. The death occurred suddenly at Glenmark,, Canterbury, on Sunday of the' Rev. I Walter ' Dunkley. aged sixty-two years. He was private secretary to Bishop Julius from 1801 to 1892, and organising chaplain to the late Bishop; Harper, of Christchurch, in 1888-9. MrJ Dunkley was educated primarily at a' private school, and afterwards at Queen's College, London. He arrived in New Zealand in 1872, being ordained in 1878. Mr. Dunkley was assistant master at Christ's College from 1876' to 1879, vicar of Phillipstown in 1878, Lincoln in 1879, Burniiam in 1881, Courtenay in 18S4, and precentor of Christchurch Cathedral for many years.

MB. W. R. RETEMEYER. There passed away on Sunday, at his residence, Milton road, Napier, one of New Zealand's early settlers, Mr. William Bernardus Retemeyer. Mr. Retemeyer arrived in New Zealand in 1858, and. for some time acted as manager of the Tu/tara.u station in Otago, after which he went to the diggings when the first goldfield rush took place in Otago. The late Mr. Eetemayer was (says the Hawke's Bay Herald) a well-known figure throughout almost every part of the Wanganui, Rangitikei, Manawatu and Hawke's Bay districts, and wherever he was known he was held in high personal esteem. He was for some year 3 captain w the Mounted Constabulary in the Rangitikei district, and also master of the Rangitikei Hunt. Ke leaves a widow and a grown-up family.

GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER. ' A Berlin cablegram reports the death, from heart failure, of Herr von Kider-len-Waechter, Minister for Foreign Affaire. Herr Waechter had been ill .for several days, and died during his annual visit to his sister at Strulgart.

A WORTHY MATRON'S END. The death occurred at Sumner on Christina* morning of Miss Craig, late matron of the Sumner Deaf and Dumb School for seven years. Prior to that Miss Craig was matron of Christ's, College. Miss Craig brought the Deaf and Dumb Institution up to a high-class boarding-school, so far as the domestic arrangements were concerned. She was the first to suggest a definite system of laundry working, and through her instrumentality the system of regular courses of cooking lessons was introduced by the Education .Department, She also taught the pupils to dance, with marked success, two of them performing, at the Theatre Royal at the Creche Concert a year ago. She suggested to the Education Department, but in vain, that the girs should be taught to gather flowers and make them into bunches for sale. She considered that the matron should be more than a matron—a mother to the children, and through "her influence and general watchfulness and care taught them self-reliance.

A NELSON AUCTIONEER. The death occurred yesterday morning of Mr. Austen H. Bisley, member of the firm of Bisley Bros., auctioneers, Nelson. He was well known in the district as an energetic business man, and was a member of the Nelson City < Council, a former president of the Nelson Chamber of Commerce, and member of many local bodies.—Press Association.

DR. GEORGE WILSON. One of the best known medical men (says a telegram from Palraerston North), died/yesterday in the person of Dr. George Wilson. He was operated on for appendicites on Sunday, but gradually sank and died last evening. After practising in Edinburgh and Glasgow he came to New Zealand in 1892, establishing himself at Palmerston, where he was known as a highly successful surgeon and physician. He was a well-known member of the Manawatu Racing Cliib;