Kate’s notes: Bangor is located in County Down, Northern Ireland, near the coast of the Irish sea.

From the Wairarapa Daily Times
Region: Wellington
18 Aug 1906

   We (Standard) regret to record the death, after a brief illness of five days, of Mr. John C. Gilliland, which occurred at Morrison’s Bush on the 15th inst., death being due to pneumonia. Deceased, who has been a resident of Morrison’s Bush for thirteen years, had been eighteen years in the colony. He was a native of  Bangor, Ireland, and at the time of his death was sixty-two years old. For a number of years the late Mr. Gilliland was an elder of the Presbyterian Church and a member of the Kaitara School Committee, in both of which he took a keen and active interest. Deceased leaves a widow and a son and daughter to mourn his loss.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012