DEATH OF MR BUNTING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3626, 30 September 1890, Page 2

DEATH OF MR BUNTING.

Last Saturday evening Mr Henry Bunting, bead teacher of the Greytown public school, breathed his Inst after a short illness, of about a week. Deceased died upon the eve of his 53rd birthday. Ho was born in Bolford, Ireland, and finished bis education at Homerton College, near London, He was appointed headmaster of Dorchester school, which situation he held for 10 years and afterwards held a similar appointment in the south of England, Being mill-health he consulted his medical man, who advised him to "go abroad," so he determined to come to New Zealand, arriving here in 1883. His testimonials were highly approved by the Wellington Education Board, who appointed him to Gladstoneschool, pro km, and afterwards to Featherston, and finally to Greytown, where he was highly esteemed by those who knew hira, He was a man of strictly temperato habits, with a '"penchant" for study, and in public was known as a quiet, unassuming, Christian geiUlemnn, His death is a loss to the Education Department and a calamity to the widow and bereaved family, for flhom rcuoh sympathy is felt. Ho will bo buried in Featherston cemetery to-day. Mr Bunting was a Freemason, but tho ceremonious rites of the craft will not be introduced into tho quiet funeral proceedings of to day, The Masons will be there, and so will the school children whom he loved so well and served eo faithfully, but these and all his friends will follow sadly in the garb of ordinary life, the remains' to the grave of'their departed fellow-sojouraerin this life's short existence. A'Masterton correspondent writes: —"Poor Bunting is dead, His complaints were complicated. Oon« gestion of theliver, followed by inflammation. Ho leaves a wifo and three daughters and two eons, one of the latter being a pupil teacher in the Mnsterton school. His fellow teachers will miss him very much and deeply regret his death."