OBITUARY

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 31, Issue 44, 31 October 1907, Page 17

OBITUARY

MR. WILLIAM HICKLAND, RANGIORA (From an occasional correspondent.)

There passed away after a long and painful illness on October 24 one of the oldest residents in the Morth Canterbury district in the person of Mr. William Hickland, of Fernside,-. Rangiora. The deceased was born in Glenavy, County Antrim, in 1840, and came to Auckland in 1862. He -spent some time on the Coromandel diggings, and laicr on was engaged driving the escort during the Maori war. He then came to Canterbury, where he was engaged by the late Mr. H. lilacuett, of Rangiora, driving a goods waggon between Rangiora and Christchurch before the north railway was opened, and afterwards the mail coach between Rangiora and Oxford. In JLBG9 he married Miss M. A. Keating, and then commenced farming in the Fernside district, where he' had resided until his death. He was attended in his last illness by Rev. Father MacManus. Deceased leaves a wife and family of seven, four sons and three daughters. Two of the latter are professed nuns in the Order of Our Lady of the Missions—Mother M. SI. Rosalie, of Stratford, and Sister M. tot. Priscilla, of Nelson. ' Mr. Thomas H. Hickland, of Kaponga, Taranalri, is the second son. Messrs. W. R., rt., and J. -Hickland and Miss E. Hickland, of Fernside, are the other members of the family. The funeral, which was attended by a large number of friends and residents of the surrounding district, took place at the Rangiora Catholic cemetery, Rev. Father MacManus officiating at the graveside.— R.l. P.