DEATH OF GENERAL CAREY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 237, 15 August 1872, Page 5

DEATH OF GENERAL CAREY.

The death is announced in our telegraphic intelligence received by the mail of General Carey ; and although we b.ive only this bald statement, it may be presumed that the obituary refers to Maj >r General George Jackson Carey, C. 8., who is the only officer of that rank whose name is recorded in tbe Army List. General Care}' was early settled in the Cape, and for many years held a commission in the Capo Mounted Rifles, with which corps he saw service in the Kaffir war, and was awarded a medal. He subsequently exchanged into the 18th Royal Irish, and we believe was with the second battalion of that regiment through the Crimean campaign. He rose very rapidly in promotion, and w hen the regiment was in New Zealand in 1832-3, General, then Colonel, Carey was in commpnd at Papakura as a brigadier, and subsequently at Orakau, when the Maori force broke through the 40th lines. Shortly afterwards General Carey arrived in this Colony as Commander of the Forces, and upon the recall of Sir Charles Darling became for a short period Acting Governor, d 'ring which time he succeeded in securing the re spect and esteem of all classes of the community, and upou his departure for England a special resolution was passed by the Legislature acknowledging his services, and requesting that such acknowledgment might meet with due cons : deration from the home authorities. Upon his arrival in the old country the same good fortune which had followad General Carey throughout the whole course of his military career, and which placed him in the enviable position of being the youngest general officer in point of time service in the British Army, did not desert him now, for he was soon placed in command of the second Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, a position which he held with much credit during the allotted term, only to be transferred to the command of the troops in the Manchester district, which post he must have held up to the time of his decease. General Carey was married, and the amiable and accomplished lady who but recently was his wife and is now bis widow, will long be remembered by a very large circle of friends in this colony. — Argus.