[Death of John Anderson]

Our obituary contains a notice of the sudden an unexpected death of one of the oldest settlers in this Province, Mr John Anderson, of Kelvin Grove, Kaihiku, brother-in-law of the Messrs Allan Bros., East Taieri. It appears the deceased, while at work in his garden on Saturday afternoon last, felt suddenly ill, and immediately thereafter became insensible. Dr Manning, of Warepa, was at once sent for, but on arrival found that nothing could be done to alleviate his sufferings; death, however, terminated these within twelve hours of the attack. Mr Anderson arrived in Otago from Nelson along with his brother-in-law, Mr Alexr. Mackay, of Dunrobin, East Taieri, in 1844, nearly four years before the arrival of the Wycliffe and Philip Laing, the pioneer ships from Britain. Mr Anderson sailed from London for Wellington, accompanied by Mr Mackay, in September 1839, by the ship Oriental, one of the first four vessels which sailed upon the same day under the auspices of the New Zealand Company.