Joseph Northey

MR. JOSEPH THOMAS NORTHEY. Death has claimed, after an illness extending over a period of eighteen

months, another of the district's well-known and respected residents, in the person of Mr. Joseph Thomas Nor-they, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Northey was born in St. Clair, Corn-wall, and at the age of eight years came to Australia, his family settling at Ballarat in 1861, ten years after the gold rush had commenced on fields that are reputed to have been the richest in the world. Mr. Northey was a young man when he left Bal-larat in 1877 to seek his fortune in this State, and in that same year he and his family arrived at Brown's Creek, near Blayney, where they es-tablished a store. Later he came on to Orange and secured employment at Brown and Brown's, in Summer Street, where he won the friendship of countless people during the num-ber of years he was an employee at the store. Mr. Northey was interested in most local and world events, and always entertained a deep regards for the people about him. He remem-

bered the feverish search for gold and during his life collected various min-erals which were regarded by experts as a splendid collection. For a num-ber of years Mr. Northey resided at Stuart Town. His wife predeceased him by about three years, and Mr. Northey, about eighteen months ago, fell and fractured his thigh. Pneu-monia supervened and he passed away at the home of his daughter,