OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1004, 20 December 1910, Page 5

OBITUARY.

v r—-+ .■' MR. H. S. 'HADFIELD'! -General regret will' be, tfelt among his .wide circle .of ■ friends at the> death of Mr. H. S. HadMd, which : occurred yesterday in the Thorndon, Privato Hospital. • Mr£ Hadfield was the eldest son of 'hiMate Bishop-Hadfield, who was Bishop of Wellington and Primate of New Zealand.' ..A; sufferer for.-several, years from ail internal complaint, to;which bo, ultimately, fell a victim, Mr. Hadfield underwent : repeated operations in New Zealand; arid filially went to England for special ' treatment. ' Unhappily, he ob. tained no-rolief, and returned to Wellington by the Rotorna on the Sunday before-last, so low in,. health • that he could not be taken ashore until the following day. After lingering for a week, be succumbed yesterday. Het was fifty-seven-years old. Mr. Hadfield-was highly .esteemed by all who knew him.,for the unaffected kindliness of his disposition.' He was an accomplished Maori scholarend served from 1879 until 1883 as Native interpreter to the House of Representatives. Subsequently, he acted in a similar capacity • ill the- Legislative l Council and under Sir Dillon Bell arid Sir W .Eos, in settling Native disputes on the West'Coast'of ■ the-North Island. ...Mi 1 . Hadfield 'leaves a widow, and several children.",- Mrs. Hadfield is a daughter of the Rev.,;H'.; P. Ttfckey, of Wellington.

MR. JOHN OXENHAM:

". Wofd has beau received of the death of Mr. . John : Oxenham," of ■ Koiterangi .whofee .deitli. took, plilce at the Westlartd Hospital on-Monday last, December 12. This deceased, who was a brother-of Mr! 0. Oxenham,. of New Plymouth,'had been following (arming, pursuits in the Keka.tahi find Kbiterangi • districts ■ f6r the past thirty-five years; andwas highly respected by all -who" knew: iihd had deajings with him. .He was. borii on board- the Amelia, Thompson, shortly after his' parents left England for Tara*nhlti, in 1841, and was, therefore,. G8 *years of a^e,' over forty-of which had been spent on thai West Coast of the' -South Inland. He led a single life. The deceased,who Had served with distinc-' tion. in the Maori .war's, and was mentioned' in . dispatches; was all through the ..Waitiira campaign in the; Mounted Troop; and also'at .Mahoetahi and Waireka, rind 1 was one. of tljose who -were left on the Waireka battlefield all night -to.help to convey Joseph_Hitwken, who -was. wounded, to ,tho -Mission Station, lis .related by Mr. W. Wilson, of. Tatarai■maka, hi his actount of tlie affair. He was known very. generally - as.. "Taranaki .Tack" (soys a New ;PIJ-itaouth .'paper), and his. ability as a stocknlaii was rated very high by the. pastoral cotojniuiity.'."