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Monday 1
February 1897
Invercargill - 03
POOLE - Edward Poole, aged 18 was
drowned in a lagoon near Winton on Sunday afternoon while bathing
--------
Tuesday 2
February 1897
Naturalisation - 05
ANDERSEN - Christian
T.J. Master Marriner, Lyttelton.
FEHSENFELD -
Louis, labourer, Papanui
KABALA
- Thomas, bushman West Oxford
ZIMMERMAN -
August, labourer, West Oxford.
Presentation - 06
SPRING - The employees of Whitcombe & Tombs
Ltd met to present to Mr
W.J.Spring, a purse of sovereigns ----- on the occasion of
his marriage.
Thursday
4 February 1897
Wedding at Rangiora - 09 -
JOHNSTON - MARTIN - flags
were flying in Rangiora ---- marrriage of Mr William Johnston, engineer
to Miss Mary Martin,
sister in law
of Mr James Carmichael
-----
Friday 5
February 1897
Meeting of Creditors -
012
WILD - The first meeting of
creditors of John Wild, coach proprietor,
Papanui ---- a long column.
Fatal Accident -
MAXWELL - 013
--- at the Zealandia Soap Works ---- manager
John Miles Maxwell, aged 38. ---- leaves a wife and 3
young children -------
Saturday
6 February 1897
Inquest - MAXWELL -
015
--- held at the Heathcote bridge Hotel ---- death of John
Myles Maxwell ---- Thomas Warwick deposed that he was
a soap boiler employed at
the Zealandia Works ---- Thomas Maxwell,
brother of the deceased ------ accidental death -------
Presentations - 016
WALKDEN - late
City Surveyor of Christchurch leaving
NZ for South Africa, City Surveyor for 22 years
--- wished Mr and Mrs Walkden a pleasant
voyage -----
SPRIGGS - Mrs
at East Eyreton ------ for her many kindnesses to the
residents -----
Monday 8
February 1897
Death - MORRISON -
019
Mr Strong Work Morrison, one of Timaru's old
identities, died on Friday ---- He arrived in
Timaru 40 years ago ---- 1st licensee of the now
enlarged Ship Hotel, he leaves a widow and 2 step-daughters.
Deaths - Auckland - 020
BEWICKE -
Captain, verdict accidently drowned ---
MULGREN - J.
found lying dead on a road near Katikate ---- kicked by a
horse
JOHNSON - Charles
--- aged 15 drowned in
the Wairoa River, Tauranga ----
Patents - 021
HITCHINGS - E. printer,
Christchurch, a burnishing ink for application to
leather
SCOTT - Moses, engineer, Opawa, ---
propelling gear for bicycles ----
WOOD & CLAYTON ---- mechanical stoking ---
BOOTH - G.T. engineer, and
JONES - E. blacksmith, Christchurch, ------
LANDELLS - W.H., engineer,
Ashburton, improvements in cycles
DUNCAN - O.E., clerk, a pocket tobacco
cutter --
ELSTON - R. painter, a safety envelope --
KEE - D.C. contractor, Pleasant
Point, a ventiating milk can.
WALKER - E. and
HENDERSON - J.A. an improved process
--- railway sleepers, fencing posts etc.
Inquest - SHAILER
- 022
-- Phoebe Shailer who dropped down dead on the West Coast
road on Wednesday last -- was held in the Courtenay
schoolroom ------
death from heart failure ---
Tuesday 9
February 1897
Fatalities - 023
BRAUND -
Captain J. shipmaster of
Auckland, aged 68 died suddenly ---- in charge of the
schooner Alabtross in 1870 -------
MARTIN - Mrs
Winnifred, of Waimate, a widow
aged 95 living with her son, died suddenly -------
Funeral at Lyttelton -
FLORENCE - 024
John Florence, a greaser on board the Ionic was taken
ill just before departure die on Friday and was
buried in the English cemetery on Saturday ----
his remains were follwed by the whole of the fireman
from Ruapehu, waimate and Kaikoura ---
Presentation - McBETH
- 026
---- at Arenas'a cafe, presentation to Mr
N.L.McBeth on behalf of the Christchurch staff of the Canterbury
Frozen meat Co. and heads of departments
of the works at Belfast ------- approaching marriage
--- a biscuit casket from the staff and a handsome
marble clock from the heads of departments. ---
Inquest - DUGGLEBY
- 027
-- held at Governor's Bay --- man who was found floating in
the harbour on Sunday ---- George Chapman, head
assistant at the Sunnyside Lunatic
Assylum, identified the body as that of Edwin Duggleby
-------
Wednesday
10 February 1897
Wellington - Fatality - 030
BORDEN - John
James, aged 45, a miner, died suddenly last night.
Thursday
11 February 1897
Benefit Concert -
WAGSTAFF - 033
----- at Lyttelton --- in aid of the widow and
orphans of late C.W.Wagstaff ----- piano
solo by Miss Vere Bromley,
songs were sung by Mesdames
Hiskens, and Gilmore, Misses Macey, Willis, Clark and M.O'Brien, Messrs Walls, G.E. Collins and Williamson, and Miss
K.O'Brien
and Mr G.E.Collins contributed a duet -- Mr Hall gave 2
recitations and had to respond to a double encore
----
Friday 12
February 1897
Dunedin - Fatalities - 035
GOLDER -
Janet Golder, wife of the licensee of
the Mornington Hotel, was found dead in bed yesterday ----
JAMES -
Helen, wife of Joseph H. James, labourer, was found
dead on the floor of the house -----
Monday 15
February 1897
Drowned - McKAY
- 038
--- a boat named Weona was being sailed from Sumner to the
heathcote bridge by Messrs J.Sibbald,
W. Langdown, G.Andrews, G.McKay,
and Gilbert McKay, capsized ---- Gilbert
McKay, aged 17 ----- died ---- was a brother of
Mr W.T.KcKay of the Lyttelton Times staff
--- inquest will be held.
Fatalities & Accidents - 039
WAY -
Annie, aged about 20 --- dau. of
James Way, bootmaker, was found drowned ---
missing for 2 days --- in New Plymouth
O'TOOLE -
Jeremiah, employed on the Kanieri, had an accident at
Waitara --------
WOOD - Mrs, a
widow, residing in Dunedin was found dead in her bed.
Obituary - ROBINSON
- 040
Mrs Ward Robinson, arrived in Lyttelton on 3 October 1857
by the Glentanner.
was the first to start a Sunday School at Springfield ----
for 20 years ---- celebrated her Golden Wedding recently
--- leaves a husband, and 4 sons
Wednesday
17 February 1897
Funeral - FAVILLE
- 043
The funeral of the late Mr J.T.Faville took place at the
Addington Cemetery yesterday aft. a considerable number of
the bakers of Christchurch
and of Freemasons and Oddfellows -----
been treasurer of the Crown Masonic Lodge ------
The STUBBING Fund
- 044
A meeting of the committee of the fund for the relief of the widow and
children of the late Mr F.Stubbing was held ---- a cottage has
been taken
and furnished for Mrs Stubbing and she was now occupying it. ----
Friday
19 February 1897
Invercargill - 050
MEDDER - Cecil L. Medder, aged about 5
years, was drowned in the
railway water reservoir at Bluff --- inquest
----- reservoir should be fenced in.
Saturday
20 February 1897
Inquest - 052
DALSTON - William Henry Maxwell Dalston, died
suddenly on Thursday evening ----
Wednesday
24 February 1897
Wellington - 058
SCULLY - Michaerl Scully, an inmate of the
hospital, died under choloform during an operation.
-------
Thursday
25 February 1897
Auckland - 061
CONNELL - John Connell, a 'bus driver was
killed by a 'bus accident
at Newmarket. The horses bolted ---- he was 65
years of age.
Obituary - 062
EMPSON - the flags were flying half mast today at
the Fore Brigade
stations -- Mrs Empson, caretaker of the Lichfield
street station, who died yesterday
evening.
-----
Fatality - POLLOCK -
McINTOSH - 063
The young woman who fell through the glass roof of the veranda at Mr Crysell's boarding house at Rangiora
on 23 Jan. died this morning --- was the
daughter of Mr H. McIntosh,
from whom the bay on the Peninsula is named after, was married
only a few days ago to Mr William Pollock,
a shepherd on the Reserve station at Clarence -- an inquest
will be held.
Saturday
27 February 1897
Double Fatality -
AYLWARD - MULKEN - 066
--- Richard Aylward coming along River road, at
Opawa looking into the river ---- drowned
body recovered by a party of men from Webster's
fellmongery, where deceased worked. whilst searching
for the body a young man named Joseph Aloysuis Mulken, who
was friend of the deceased
took a fit on hearing of the accident and died. an inquest
will be held for both men. Cjarles Albert Wright reported the
incident, a man named Marquet
dived for the body but was unable to recover it. -------
Dunedin - 067
STYLES - Leonard Styles, a boy,
died in the hospital today from injuries received in a fall
----
Beverley Evans
Christchruch NZ
21 July 2009
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