MR W. PRUDHOE.

Mr William Prudhoe, who was for many years a prominent citizen of Christchurch, died to-day. Mr Prudhoe, who was born in Sunderland, England, in 1831, arrived in Lyttelton by the ship Regina in 1859. He entered business as a builder, and erected several well-known buildings in the city. In 1882 Mr Prudhoe was elected a member of the City Council, and he held a seat on the Council until 1892, when he became Mayor. Later he again entered the Council. He was long a member of the North Canterbury Charitable Aid Board, and for five years held a seat on the Hospital Board. Mr Prudhoe was a Past Grand Master of the Orange Order for the South Island. He was married in 1885 to a daughter of Mr Cumberland Adamson, of Sunderland, and leaves two sons and one daughter. He was a Justice of the Peace, and was aged seventy-seven years.