Williams, John Anderson

Listed under Taita
NZPO 1880 - 81 Williams John A
NZPO 1885 - 86 Williams John A, hotel

Evening Post 13 May 1882
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PUBLICAN''S LICENSE.
I JOHN ANDERSON WILLIAMS, of Taita, do hereby give notice that I desire to obtain, and will at the next Licensing Meeting to be holden at Lower Hutt, on the 5th day of June, apply for a certificate authorising the issue of a publican''a license for a house situate at Taita, known as the Travellers'' Rest Hotel, containing 14 rooms, exclusive of those required for the use of the family, and owned by Mr. George Buck.
Dated the 13th day of May, 1882.
JOHN ANDERSON WILLIAMS.

Evening Post 22 August 1883
NOTICE
IF Mr. Jacobs, owner of the Chestnut Horse running on my land since 11th March, 1882, does not claim the same within fourteen days from this date, and pay all expenses, it will be sold by public auction at the next Hutt Marker, to defray the same,
JOHN WILLIAMS,
Travellers Rest Hotel,
Taita, Hutt
22nd August, 1883

Death Details
1899/2619, John Anderson Williams, Aged: 77Y - Date of Death 30/5/1899 from Death Registration

Evening Post 30 May 1899
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES SUDDEN DEATH IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Mr. John Williams, an old settler and well known in the city and suburbs, died suddenly in the magazine reading room in the Free Public Library this morning. Mr Williams was an old subscriber to the library, and this morning after changing a book he went into the reading-room, and was reading there when (at about 11.30 o''clock) a fellow-reader noticed him start and full back in his chair. The attendant (Mr. E. Perry) was called, and he did what he could to relieve Mr. Williams, who appeared to be in a faint. Several medical men were rung up by telephone, but none were at home. Within a short time of the attack, however, Dr. Fyffe, who was passing by, was called in, but on examination he declared life to be extinct. Deceased did not recover consciousness from the time of his attack. Mr. and Mrs. Williams some eight years ago kept the Taita Hotel, and they also were in the Kilbirnie Hotel for some time. As a young man the deceased was a member of a British cavalry regiment, which he left to emigrate in the early days to Victoria, where he married and came on to Wellington.