The Newcastle Sun (NSW : 1918 - 1954), Tuesday 10 June 1919, page 5

PIONEER
Death
Mrs.
late

PASSES

of

widow
Mathews,
one
Mathows,

Emma
Edwin

Mr.

oldest

Mathews

Mrs.

residents

the
dis-i

Newcastle

the

of

the

of
of

her residence, 34 Tighe's-!

at
terrace-street, Tighe's Hill, this morn
Mathews
of 95. Mrs.
Ins, at
the
age
had
lived
in the district for 69 years,
trict, died

the

saw
md
village

When

she

Tho

llrst section

lino

at

Maitiand

not

was

years
had

time,

and

made

road
Gas

there
in

tallow

There

was

nearly

not

of

being

the
dis-]

tho

unknown

candles

at

properly

the whole
an

New

council

lighting
used.

then

power,

her

was

was

East

to

for
arrival.

municipal

no

northern

great
Point

begun

after

castle

trict.

of the

Honeysuckle

small;

proportions.!
noj
there
was
of any
kind.!

communication

railway

four

irom

city grow
its present
arrived
here

to

miles

of

newspaper
and
Newcastle,
and

here

tween

within

no

the

the

20

mails

northern

be

towns

were
conveyed
by coaches which
frequently bogged at Hexham
Swamps,
hours.
in consequence
and
delayed for
first landed
In
When
Mre.
Mathews
Scott-st., In front of 'The
Newcastle,
olflce,
Sun'
of
Newcastle
formed
the
of tho east
beach, and the whole
Great
whero
the
end
from
Northern
to
stands
Hotel
the tram
now
depot
hills of sand;
was
while, going west
scrub
all
the
were
surroundings
ward,
The
in
bush.
only coal mining
and
that
Mrs.
early days was
Mathews'
were

carried

on

by

the. A.

A.

Company.

however, other industries

district, comprising
the city and
tweed
a
factory at Stockton, a flour
smaller
other
but
mill,
and
works,
most
of a primitive character.
is survived
by a fam
Mrs. Mathews
ily
of
10
children, all living in the
district.
Mr.
Ed
One son,
Newcastle
Junr.,
well-known
win
a
MathewB,
few
builder, of Cook's Hill,
died a
in Western
Australia, and
years
ago
husband
predecea'scd
Mrs. Mathews'
also
are
There
her 46 yoarB
ago.
aud
numerous
grand
great-grand

There
about

were,

children

The
row

living.

funeral

will

take

place

tomor

afternoon.

in
absence
During the temporary
of
Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.,
Sydney
his magisterial
duties in the Newcas
itlo
being discharged by
district aro
Mr. A. O. Butler, D.-S.M.
'AlEx-Senior
Detective
M'Hattie,
hasj
vah,' Hunter-street, Newcastle,
been notified that bis son
(Private
M'Hattlo) Is returning to Aus
Wallace
tralia
transport
by the
'Kaiser-i1b expected
to arrive In
Hlnd,' which
on
or
about June
Melbourne
23. An
(Captain
Donald
other son
Gordon
killed In aotlon nt Mos
was
M'Hattie)
?' I
Bines in July, 1917.
?.

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