FIGHTING IN BRAZIL

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10543, 27 January 1912, Page 5

FIGHTING IN BRAZIL

CABLE NEWS

(United Press Association— By tilec trtc Telegram—Vopyngal.J

NEWSPAPER OFFICES BURNED ELECTION OF GOVERNOR. Received This iYlorning, 12.25 o'clock RIO DtE JANEIRO, Jan. 26. Serious street.'fighting has occurred at Bahia,. in. Brazil. ...Several newspaper offices ibeen burned and looted, owing to ttheir t>p,position to Dr Seasbra's candidature for the Governorship.

OBITUARY* - MR JOHN MORIRIS. Mr John Morris, one of the oldest and most respected settlers of this district, died at his" residence at Hbmebush at five .o'clock on Friday morning. The" deceased had v be©n in failing health for a year or two, and was contemplating leavinig shortly for Sydney to try the effects of a warmer climate. On Thursday he was out hi the harvest field,,and expressed himself as feeling in better health than for some time. ' He retired to rest SB usual, but in tfce early hours- of Friday morning he was overcome with a heart seizure, and before medicalll aid arrived he had /breathed Ms last. 'lhe deceased, who was a som of the late Mir John' Morris, of Hbmebush, had lived practically the whole of his life in this district. In the early days he.went wa* known as "Skipper's school," with the Bannisters, Mutries, McKenzies, Cblways, and others, and completed Ms education in the primary school, under Mr Pilkington. He haEL-ever; >si|ice :.been engaged in farming pur--suits, and has 'heeh regarded as one of th£ mo«t hard-rworking, honest and industrious settlers in the district. For several years'he represented tfce Te. Wihiti .Riding on the Mastexton County Council, and (rendered useful service to the district, and was also a member of thorMasterton Hospital Oomimittee and of ;the. Benevolent So-,, oiety, Quiet and unobtrusive-in'iifanl ner;• findlt' : in , ;^jjsposi'tifm^'■ ;an:!d(V:'" , ]ii^ , r : . v®:vP^ffi rer: leave* a widowed mother, d.brother (Mir Jos r sph (Morris, of Te OreV Ore), and a ■sister (Mrs Angus Fraser,. now of" LTaramaki) to mourn their loss. The i late Mir" Horxis ivas regartled as one ofr-the best ploughmenvin the distri6t. His "father., too, was ah expert: with the plough, and had taken many prize® at locaili (ploughing matches. His aged mother, 'who recently met with a painful accident, is- in a someMiat feeblft f/iate.,rf health. The funeral cf the deceased . will, 'take place on Sunday afternoon. '

MR WILLIAM MORIARTYi liMr William Moriarty, a very old and reppeotcd resident of Darter ton, parsed away in^•^>'^■•prn^t&''•' ] ■'lioßpital yesterday, at .theTage of ieyen'tynine years. Ithe who su£» iered from ahs?ce!?||in tiife;: head, had, been ailing' for only .a weeks. v ; :;Mir Moriarty, who was born in Ireland; [•oanie.'to- New. Zealand in .1877, via San Francisco,., after learning his bu sinese with Mr Daniel Ward; of U.S.A. vOn arrival a*t Wellington,. he , went into business in the boot line, and was well-knownin the Empire in that capacity, for some ( fi.W yeare/'' In 18&2 he removed- to Carterton, where he has; oohV ducted ,tfce business ofVa storekeeper ever since.The deceased had taken an active part in the';, : polities' of Carterton,- and nyasY for '{•some time a member of the, Borough ; Council. He was also an ardent, suppor/ter of {lie Liberal . arid a keen .'and enthusiastic bowler.