OBITUARY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 42, 11 March 1899, Page 2

OBITUARY.

(iemunf legiet wa& felt thioughotft Waimate on Tuesday when it was made known that by the Vaneoavei mail news airi\ed of the death of Mi Alphens Ha>es, of Gentlewood.. This sad event occiuied on ihe 3id J,in,, t.he eaufee ot death being typhoid ievei, eo.npjuated towards the lattei end with s iii\\, Mi Hajes wjl'j taken ill dboul the 1 beginning of Novcinbei. lH9b, and not getting any bettci he was on the 17th Dec. ieino\ed to St Mary's Hospi'al, Pauso'i City, ondei' the chaise 1 of Mi John ll< Wlntelaw, who ioimcd one of the little ciowd of New ZeaIftndeis who left this eountiy ioi the Klondjke goldiielas about 12 months ago and ac-conip.-jtned Mr Hayes tbioughont the journey, Mr W hilelaw appeals on tins sad occasion to have behaved with all the humanity and fuendly caie that could he exhibited- Biuing his llUjest, Mr Hayes was attended by Dr Maefailrvne, an Edmbuigh phvaician of high standing. Two honse anißeon 0 ! weie al&o pip-ent aL flic end, and it is ceitain that all possible w,is done, but without avail. The body was mteued in the Methodist cemeteiy on Jan, Gih. tlnfoitunatelv Mr D. Hendei&on, who ft'compamed Mi H.ues fioni Waimute, was timing this time living at blew art, 70 miles horn Da-wson, so that he h<*d no actual Wannate frißnd with him a 1 ; the last. Mr Hayes was bom m Halifax, Scotia, in 1847. He was educated m that city aaiii alterwaids went to Moutieal to study tor the nnnistiy 111--health compi-lled him to leaveCiin<id>i rtnd b j went to G a^ow, £ >iu>lv>ny; theie and at Gieenack foi a \eai. liii 1871 he ca-ne to New Zea'and in the Wsld Deei r and seemed employment at the llaunitafn. bridge, ins knowledge of timber «<x>n obtaining for him a good position. He w.us- otteu bent to W.»nnafce Bush, and he went theie at the end of 1871 and started S'lAiiull**, Hesaueeeded well till 187H, vvlien the Ua^h tne f,hiev/ him back gve.ulv. liowev&.v he kept fie- business going and also opened nulls at Mabel Bush in Southland tvad b.a'ich husi-nps-,es m Tunaiu and A' hbuiton. He kept abug.tntine and « schoone-i running timber fiom the<K)uth. Lutei on he sold out of the tnnbei buMiiew and took to frt\wn£», dividing his attention between his i mis at Odntiewood, Waimate, and Nornui,pv« ! e, HiilcaUl-amea, At ther end of Februaiv, lb I M, Mi Haje» lett Wannate on a tup to Canada, intending to go iiom thenoeto Klo'idjke, n id lettim m Ma\, 1899, but Fiovi ien.-e ouleic l omieiwise. Mi Haves was a pionnntnt ligme Jn local fiffaus, having been a .} P., a member of Dnough and County Coxincils. a member of th j Wasmnte Ihuh .-kJjool lij.icd and other local bodies. He was also chairman of the Tmirt'u Iliiil'oni Board at the time of his ttepaituie. He «,ib a member ot tlie Wesley an Ctiuich, a Mason, and was an enthusw a.-.tic tpc(rt»inan. He had twice unsuccessfully roriteste.l thf> Waimate seat 4t the Geu-wal Illeetion. The Jate Mr Hayea leaves a w»da\>f, two drtiishteip, and live sous,, and toe gi^teat fcympathy i» felt tor them m tbeiv.gient troub c. Conilrmatoi7 news of his aeath has been i«ceived ihrongh the Masonic Lidge from one of the frateimt/ belonging to a Manitoba L >dge, who was on the field.