DEATH OF DR. CAREY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2717, 10 December 1889, Page 2

DEATH OF DR. CAREY.

It is our painful duty to .announce the death of an old and universally esteemed fellow-settler. Dr. Carey, so long and favorably known in connection with the early days of the Waikato, breathed his last on Sunday morning, after a short illness, at the allotted span of seventy years of age. The deceased gentleman's health had been gradually failing for some weeks past, and the news of the death of his sister in England, the sole survivor with himself of his family, had a visible effect upon liim, he and became prostrated about three weeks ago. He was attended by Dr. Kenny of Hamilton and Dr. Waddington of Cambridge, who hold out no hopes of his recovery. Dr Carey's loss to the community will been keenly felt ; he was a man of large-henrtedness and of most tender sympathies for his fellowcreatures, and many there are who owe him a deep debt of grattude for his kind acts and gentle consideration in their distress and ailments. His courtly, well-bred manners, and various accomplishments proclaimed him the gentleman, and his skill as a physician and his knowledge of medical science were of a high order. The best proof of his professional popularity was the unqualified confidence reposed in him, and as a citizen and colonist he had not a single enemy. A good man, a faithful servant of his Master, has been called home to render an account of the just and virtuous life he led here, while many will mourn his loss as a true and noble-heaitod friend. Dr. Carey leaves a widow and three daughters, for whom the deepest sympathy is felt. Tha deceased was of too tender a naturo to become a rich man ; it had been better from a worldly point of view for his family had he been made of sterner stuff, to enable him to lay by larger provision for them.

A brief history of our departed fellowsettler may bo interesting, for Dr. Uarev's life was not an uneventful one. He was born at Shackleworth, near London, oil December olst, of a good family, his father was a medical man, and afterwards became a banker. Jto studied for the medical profession, was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and took numerous degrees. He entered the British service, and was for many years on the medical staff in India, but the effects of the climate on his health compelled him to seek a change, and he joined the P. and O. Company, making several voyages to the East in charge of invalids. He then made several trips to Australia in the well-known Green line of passenger ships. But his health, the result of his residence in India, was a source of anxiety, and ho came to New Zealand, arriving in Auckland in March, 1803, in bhe ship Claremont. He was on the eve of departure again from Auckland when ho was drawn into the Militia, and in spite of his protest, he actually served as a private at the front for a time, but was shortly appointed surgeon on the medical staff. He was afterwards appointed surgeon to the 4th Waikato regiment, and had charge of the military hospitals at the seat of war (Ngarnawahia), with Dr. Beale as his assistant. At the close of hostilities he settled in this district, where he took an active interest in its welfare, and made himself beloved by his good deeds the memory of which will live after him. His interment takes place this afternoon, at the Hamilton West Cemetery, where he will be buried according to the rites of the Church of England, of which he was a member. Tho survivors of the 4th Waikato Regiment will follow the remains of their old doctor, together with the Hamilton Light Infanty, from which corps a firing party will be provided to pay the soldiers' honour to a departed officer.